{"id":3196,"date":"2019-10-09T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2019-09-21T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T19:40:13","slug":"sir-isaac-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"Sir Isaac Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he \u201ccould calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.\u201d Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling \u00a37,000. But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price\u2014and lost \u00a320,000 (or more than $3 million in today\u2019s money). For the rest of his life, he forbade anyone to speak the words \u201cSouth Sea\u201d in his presence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he \u201ccould calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.\u201d Newton dumped his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}