{"id":111,"date":"2002-11-18T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2002-11-19T00:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/11\/18\/anybody-have-an-extra-fifteen-million-dollars-lying-around\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T02:12:04","slug":"anybody-have-an-extra-fifteen-million-dollars-lying-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/11\/18\/anybody-have-an-extra-fifteen-million-dollars-lying-around","title":{"rendered":"Anybody have an extra fifteen million dollars lying around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford Daily<\/a> had an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.stanford.org\/tempo?page=content&amp;id=9568&amp;repository=0001_article\">article about Hillel<\/a> (the Jewish campus ministry at Stanford). [<a href=\"http:\/\/hillel.stanford.edu\/\">Hillel\u2019s website<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>They were able to lease some property on campus\u2013for a whopping $15,000,000. Yes, that\u2019s 15 times 10 to the 6th power. Fifteen million bucks. If I read the article correctly, that was $5,000,000 for the lease and other initial costs, $5,000,000 for renovation, and $5,000,000 to create an endowment fund for the center. They\u2019re still working on the last $10,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I remember when I was a student back in Louisiana, and we were able to purchase a house and a six unit apartment complex for less than 1% of that price (a relatively paltry $90,000).<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t look like we\u2019ll be getting a Chi Alpha house at Stanford anytime in the near future\u2013unless you\u2019d like to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure1.ag.org\/contributions\/detail.cfm?LedgerID=697FF78E-1B0E-48BE-AB0E-AD2B00DA9095\">charge $15,000,000 to your credit card<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in which the Jewish center at Stanford lays down $15,000,000 smackers for a piece of property on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}