{"id":3956,"date":"2011-02-02T14:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeanswers.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:13:58","slug":"ignorance-is-not-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/ignorance-is-not-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance is not bliss\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The recent news that New York Mets\u2019owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz usedBernie Madoff as their banker du jour is funny and sad at the same time.<br \/>\nTo be frank, I have never liked the Mets, particularly after the 1986 World Series when they beat my beloved Red Sox, but putting that aside for the moment, how is it possible that two very shrewd real estate investors could have put so much money and faith in the swindler of all swindlers?<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t get it. I mean, really, are people just that gullible or ignorant?<br \/>\nI guess the answer, unfortunately, is \u201cYou betcha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the story here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news that New York Mets\u2019owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz usedBernie Madoff as their banker du jour is funny and sad at the same time. To be frank, I have never liked the Mets, particularly after the 1986 World Series when they beat my beloved Red Sox, but putting that aside for the moment, how is it possible that two very shrewd real estate investors could have put so much money and faith in the swindler of all swindlers? I just don\u2019t get it. I mean, really, are people just that gullible or ignorant? I guess the answer, unfortunately, is \u201cYou betcha.\u201d Read the story here.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}