{"id":2742,"date":"2017-04-29T02:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:45","slug":"weekend-reading-the-go-getter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/weekend-reading-the-go-getter\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reading: <cite>The Go-Getter<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on Fourmilab today (so new, in fact, it isn&#8217;t yet linked to the home or index pages) is a Web edition of Peter B. Kyne&#8217;s 1921 novelette (11,000 words, 62\u00a0print pages with reasonably large type) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/etexts\/www\/kyne\/gogetter\/\"><em>The Go-Getter<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Subtitled \u201cA Story That Tells You How to be One\u201d (capitalisation thus in the original), an inspiring and motivating tale of a person who approached any task he undertook with a spirit of \u201cwhatever it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This work is in the public domain and available in text form from Project Gutenberg. \u00a0As with all of the books I make available on my site, a number of typographical and formatting errors have been corrected, and the typography has been updated to contemporary Web standards to be easier on the eye. \u00a0If you spot\u00a0any errors in the text, please note them in \u00a0the comments, but bear in mind that this work was published in 1921, and spelling of some words has changed: for example, \u201cto-day\u201d and \u201cto-night\u201d have lost their hyphens and \u201c&#8217;phone\u201d is no \u00a0longer written with apostrophe indicating it is an abbreviation. \u00a0I am using the Henry Holt facsimile edition of the 1921 first edition as a reference for this text.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, US$2000 in 1921 is equivalent to around US$27,500 today, and 10,000 gold-backed dollars converts to 138,000 funny-FRNs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2742\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2742\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on Fourmilab today (so new, in fact, it isn&#8217;t yet linked to the home or index pages) is a Web edition of Peter B. 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