{"id":1988,"date":"2023-07-01T05:14:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2023-06-30T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:22:53","slug":"mr-singer-and-his-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/01\/mr-singer-and-his-sewing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Singer and his Sewing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preface: \u201cLife is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.\u201d \u2014Charles R. Swindoll<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Mr. Singer and his Sewing Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875) had a dream: to become a great actor on the stage, performing Shakespeare to accolades.\u00a0 For almost the first forty years of his life, he failed to achieve any success in this pursuit.\u00a0 Continually tinkering with machines, he ju<\/em><em>st wanted to be rich.\u00a0 He finally struck gold with a workable sewing machine in the 1850s, in large part due to the efforts of the partner he hated.\u00a0 The machine, one of the most important inventions of the century, changed lives around the globe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanbusinesshistory.org\/the-sordid-saga-of-mr-singer-and-his-sewing-machine\/\">For more on the business history of the Singer Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface: \u201cLife is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.\u201d \u2014Charles R. Swindoll Mr. Singer and his Sewing Machine Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875) had a dream: to become a great actor on the stage, performing Shakespeare to accolades.\u00a0 For almost the first forty years of his life, he failed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/01\/mr-singer-and-his-sewing-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Singer and his Sewing Machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saudercpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}