{"id":2870,"date":"2007-11-09T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200711\/on-lakshmi-pooja\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T00:30:45","slug":"on-lakshmi-pooja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200711\/on-lakshmi-pooja\/","title":{"rendered":"On Lakshmi Pooja"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Money is the barometer of a society&#8217;s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion&#8211;when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing&#8211;when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors&#8211;when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don&#8217;t protect you against them, but protect them against you&#8211;when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice&#8211;you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy Diwali!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money is the barometer of a society&#8217;s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion&#8211;when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing&#8211;when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors&#8211;when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}