{"id":2311,"date":"2012-11-18T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/smaug-the-ceo.html"},"modified":"2012-11-18T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T19:43:00","slug":"smaug-the-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/smaug-the-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Smaug the CEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Xv59brXrJFQ\/UKmAA3TMdZI\/AAAAAAAACmI\/flDRdGvD4IM\/s1600\/Smaug.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Xv59brXrJFQ\/UKmAA3TMdZI\/AAAAAAAACmI\/flDRdGvD4IM\/s200\/Smaug.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know this, but I guess<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidewalt\/2012\/04\/20\/2012-forbes-fictional-15\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Forbes did a countdown of the fifteen richest fictional characters at all time.<\/a> \u00a0It\u2019s good, or perhaps not entirely coincidental, that the upcoming <i>The Hobbit\u2019s <\/i>primary\u00a0nemesis, Smaug the Tremendous, came in at a whopping estimated $62 billion, enough to make Bill Gates green with envy. He even beat out Scrooge McDuck \u2013 and that\u2019s saying something. \u00a0But then, a note to CEOs and\u00a0tycoons\u00a0everywhere:\u00a0due to his arrogance\u00a0he ended up losing it all \u00a0to a hobbit and a clever thrush. \u00a0So those resting high on the mounds of electronic wealth stored in our nation\u2019s economic infrastructure beware!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t know this, but I guess Forbes did a countdown of the fifteen richest fictional characters at all time. \u00a0It\u2019s good, or perhaps not entirely coincidental, that the upcoming The Hobbit\u2019s primary\u00a0nemesis, Smaug the Tremendous, came in at a whopping estimated $62 billion, enough to make Bill Gates green with envy. He even beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Smaug the CEO?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I didn&#039;t know this, but I guess Forbes did a countdown of the fifteen richest fictional characters at all time. &nbsp;It&#039;s good, or perhaps not entirely\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/smaug-the-ceo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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