{"id":2022,"date":"2007-12-13T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/13\/beware-of-the-standpatters\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:06:16","slug":"beware-of-the-standpatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/13\/beware-of-the-standpatters\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the &#8220;standpatters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great quote from Jack Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, which I found on Marc Andreessen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the--1.html\">excellent blog<\/a> (a blog I wish he had more time for). Warner was talking about movies, but I think &#8212; and I assume Marc agrees &#8212; that it applies to all kinds of things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every worthwhile contribution to the advancement of motion pictures has been made over a howl of protest from the standpatters, whose favorite refrain has been, &#8216;You can&#8217;t do that.&#8217; And when we hear that chorus now, we know we must be on the right track.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385265573?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=marandsblo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0385265573\">Neal Gabler&#8217;s book<\/a> <em>An Empire of Their Own<\/em>, about the rise of the Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great quote from Jack Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, which I found on Marc Andreessen&#8217;s excellent blog (a blog I wish he had more time for). Warner was talking about movies, but I think &#8212; and I assume Marc agrees &#8212; that it applies to all kinds of things: &#8220;Every worthwhile contribution to the advancement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/13\/beware-of-the-standpatters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware of the &#8220;standpatters&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}