{"id":1808,"date":"2009-09-18T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2009-09-18T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T01:57:26","slug":"rant50-cents-10-lessons-for-success-in-business-and-in-life-times-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/rant50-cents-10-lessons-for-success-in-business-and-in-life-times-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Rant::50 Cent&#039;s 10 lessons for success in business &#8211; and in life &#8211; Times Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Culture\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Culture\">culture<\/a> now, people trying to be something they are not. (Which is similar but really opposed to aspiring to be something, as opposed to aspiring to be someone). You see this in our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Celebrity\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrity\">celebrity<\/a> cult, the way people are manipulated by the media to be SHEEP, just fucking SHEEP. You hear it in the conversations that people have, the clothes they wear, even the coffee that they drink. Fuck That Shit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u2018The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"50 Cent\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1265067\/\">50 Cent<\/a> or someone else.<\/strong> They do what everyone else does even if it doesn\u2019t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. <strong>You\u2019re running away from the one thing that you own\u2014what makes you different.<\/strong> I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world <strong>I didn\u2019t care about being like other people, <\/strong>I could never go back.\u2019 50 Cent<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article6837225.ece?token=null&amp;offset=0&amp;page=1\">50 Cent&#8217;s 10 lessons for success in business &#8211; and in life &#8211; Times Online<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/50e6a4a9-5943-4de3-bf55-d173fc0af89d\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our culture now, people trying to be something they are not. (Which is similar but really opposed to aspiring to be something, as opposed to aspiring to be someone). You see this in our celebrity cult, the way people are manipulated by the media to be SHEEP, just fucking SHEEP. You hear it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/rant50-cents-10-lessons-for-success-in-business-and-in-life-times-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rant::50 Cent&#039;s 10 lessons for success in business &#8211; and in life &#8211; Times Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}