{"id":443,"date":"2009-07-31T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T00:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:03:47","slug":"can-do-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/can-do-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Can Do&#8221; Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_444\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption imgalignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/benjamin-franklin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-444\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Franklin, painted by Maria Kalman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin didn&#8217;t invented the &#8220;can do&#8221; attitude, but he certainly possessed an ability to accomplish everything he could with his life.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Kalman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/30\/can-do\/\">illustrated narrative<\/a> for The New York Times is all about the American &#8212; full of inventiveness and never bored &#8212; whose work and ethic changed the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think he was ever bored. He saw a dirty street and created a sanitation department. He saw a house on fire and created a fire department. He saw sick people and founded a hospital. He started our first lending library. He saw people needing an education and founded a university. He started the America philosophical society, where men and women shared developments in science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Onward and upward, tomorrow if not today.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/07\/ben-franklin-did-everything\">kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin didn&#8217;t invented the &#8220;can do&#8221; attitude, but he certainly possessed an ability to accomplish everything he could with his life. Maria Kalman&#8217;s illustrated narrative for The New York Times is all about the American &#8212; full of inventiveness and never bored &#8212; whose work and ethic changed the world. I don&#8217;t think he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}