{"id":6631,"date":"2015-08-08T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2015-08-08T14:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T18:51:43","slug":"dont-interrupt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6631","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Interrupt Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who first said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2015\/01\/26\/doing\/\">The person who says it cannot be done<\/a> should not interrupt the person doing it&#8221;? Is it an old Chinese proverb or more recent American maxim?<\/p>\n<p>The Quote Investigator works it over and decides he doesn&#8217;t know, but there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One instance appeared on March 7, 1903 in a periodical called \u201cThe Public\u201d based in Chicago, Illinois. An acknowledgment to the humor magazine \u201cPuck\u201d was appended.<\/p>\n<p>Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: \u201cIt can\u2019t be done,\u201d are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.\u2014Puck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who first said, &#8220;The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it&#8221;? Is it an old Chinese proverb or more recent American maxim? The Quote Investigator works it over and decides he doesn&#8217;t know, but there&#8217;s this: One instance appeared on March 7, 1903 in a periodical called \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t Interrupt Me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2288],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","tag-quotations"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}