{"id":17739,"date":"2010-03-16T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2010-03-16T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:43:22","slug":"people-dont-appreciate-things-they-dont-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"People Don&#8217;t Appreciate Things They Don&#8217;t Pay For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Dennis\/indexp2.html\">Dennis Prager learned a life lesson when he gave away copies of his book to camp counselors at Brandeis-Bardin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On his radio show March 15, 2010, Dennis recalled: &#8220;I learned this when I was 27 years of age&#8230; I had just published my first book. Out of idealism. I was brought out to California to direct an institute. It had a summer camp as one of its many many ventures. I spoke to the counselors of the summer camp and out of sheer idealism and out of my own money, authors don&#8217;t get any more than a handful of books for free, people don&#8217;t know that, they always ask authors for books, but the author has to buy it from the publisher, but out of my own money, I brought in a box of my books, hardcover, and I gave each counselor at this camp of which I was the director of the whole institute, a part of which the camp was, a copy of the book. By the tenth person, I realized what a terrible mistake I had made. I knew not one of them was going to read it and that none of them treasured it. Had I charged one dollar for the book, they would&#8217;ve appreciated it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager learned a life lesson when he gave away copies of his book to camp counselors at Brandeis-Bardin. On his radio show March 15, 2010, Dennis recalled: &#8220;I learned this when I was 27 years of age&#8230; I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20608,19376,29761,13952,21688],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-brandeis-bardin","tag-camp-counselors","tag-dennis-prager","tag-t-pay","tag-tenth-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}