{"id":11511,"date":"2010-04-13T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-13T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:30:48","slug":"has-meg-whitman-ever-met-a-perk-she-didnt-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/13\/has-meg-whitman-ever-met-a-perk-she-didnt-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Meg Whitman Ever Met a Perk She Didn&#8217;t Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Whitman is a billionaire. Everybody knows that. &nbsp;But one of the cool things about being a billionaire is that it just sort of feeds on itself. Once you are that rich, people like to give you stuff to make you happy. Like say eBay&#8217;s board even as her company&#8217;s shares are sliding and Goldman Sachs during her (very short) tenure as a director. It must be nice:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yT5ikOAH_UU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Meg Whitman is already getting off to being a third term of Arnold Schwarzenegger. She says one thing and then does the complete opposite. &nbsp;She plays for the middle now on the flood of TV ads, but you can bet she&#8217;ll head hard right when she gets the chance to finish the shock doctrine job that Arnold has been working on for 7 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Whitman is a billionaire. Everybody knows that. &nbsp;But one of the cool things about being a billionaire is that it just sort of feeds on itself. Once you are that rich, people like to give you stuff to make you happy. Like say eBay&#8217;s board even as her company&#8217;s shares are sliding and Goldman Sachs during her (very short) tenure as a director. It must be nice:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yT5ikOAH_UU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yT5ikOAH_UU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Meg Whitman is already getting off to being a third term of Arnold Schwarzenegger. She says one thing and then does the complete opposite. &nbsp;She plays for the middle now on the flood of TV ads, but you can bet she&#8217;ll head hard right when she gets the chance to finish the shock doctrine job that Arnold has been working on for 7 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-11511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ZF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}