{"id":329,"date":"2006-08-17T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/08\/17\/billionaires-read-this\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:09:15","slug":"billionaires-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/billionaires-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires, Read This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foolishblog.com\/2006\/08\/16\/billionaire-basketball\/\">FoolishBlog<\/a> notes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/moresports\/stories\/081306dnspotitans.2137e55.html\">billionaire<\/a> who flies his sons&#8217; basketball teams around the country in luxury airplanes, puts them up in fancy hotels, and bankrolls a large staff for the team.  Far be it from me to comment on any long-lasting (not to speak of eternal) value in this.  But it does spark an idea in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/ibex\">IBEX<\/a> had a billionaire.  For a mere $300,000, he could fund half-tuition scholarships for 40 students to travel and study for 15 weeks around the Holy Land.  We&#8217;d charter ordinary buses and stay in average accommodations and no one would complain.  We&#8217;d be willing to forego a general manager and a trainer-nutrionist.  Lives would be changed; the things learned in that semester would not evaporate with puberty.  Any IBEX alumni billionaires willing to step up? :-)<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, perhaps there are some IBEX alum out there who want to contribute to IBEX scholarships.  Maybe you don&#8217;t have much money and don&#8217;t think it will go real far, but in my personal experience, there&#8217;s something about giving to what you believe in, regardless of amount. Maybe it&#8217;s only 5 bucks. God can use the money perhaps better than you realize.  And it says something about your own priorities and things you&#8217;re thankful for.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you tempted to comment about how could I dare suggest such a thing while you&#8217;re still paying off loans, yes, I&#8217;m talking to you.  If loans keep you from giving, you&#8217;re a poorer person for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoolishBlog notes a billionaire who flies his sons&#8217; basketball teams around the country in luxury airplanes, puts them up in fancy hotels, and bankrolls a large staff for the team. Far be it from me to comment on any long-lasting (not to speak of eternal) value in this. But it does spark an idea in\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/billionaires-read-this\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}