{"id":330,"date":"2008-11-20T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2008-11-20T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:49:00","slug":"stop-the-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/stop-the-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span> <\/span>Entrepreneur is a perfectly lovely word that can be roughly translated from two French words meaning to undertake.\u00a0So what\u2019s fueling all these made-up variations? Here are some of the ones that I\u2019ve seen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Infopreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Mompreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Seniorpreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Kidpreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Telepreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Micropreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Solopreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span> <\/span>Mobliepreneur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not only do these new words lack the musical sound of the original, they also lack gravitas. They\u2019re kind of cute and sound more like hobbies than viable businesses. Can you imagine calling Michelangelo a Marblepreneur? Or John Steinbeck a Storypreneur?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span> <\/span>I rest my case.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Entrepreneur is a perfectly lovely word that can be roughly translated from two French words meaning to undertake.\u00a0So what\u2019s fueling all these made-up variations? Here are some of the ones that I\u2019ve seen: Infopreneur Mompreneur Seniorpreneur Kidpreneur Telepreneur Micropreneur Solopreneur Mobliepreneur Not only do these new words lack the musical sound of the original,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/stop-the-madness\/\"class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\"  title=\"ReadStop the Madness\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcard-from-barbara","tag-self-employment-titles","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}