{"id":132,"date":"2006-09-13T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T09:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/13\/unreasonable-men\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T09:51:28","slug":"unreasonable-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/13\/unreasonable-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreasonable men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanpro.com\/\">Dennis Howlett<\/a> has been giving this blog some plugs, and has even been saying some kind things about me. He does so in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanpro.com\/2006\/09\/13\/why-smart-companies-do-dumb-things\/\">this article <\/a>which is worth reading for far more reasons than that.<\/p>\n<p>What he says, in a nutshell, is that  a couple of curmudgeons are a good thing for a company. They provoke change. I think he's saying I'm such a character. <\/p>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw put it another way, which I like. He said:<\/p>\n<p><em>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My wife first introduced me to this quote. She thinks I'm an unreasonable man. I think she was using GBS's definition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Dennis Howlett has been giving this blog some plugs, and has even been saying some kind things about me. He does so in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/09\/13\/unreasonable-men\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-howlett","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}