{"id":148734,"date":"2026-03-28T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148734"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:30:08","slug":"how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-in-ancient-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148734","title":{"rendered":"How to win friends and influence people in ancient China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe way Stephen Selby tells it, Guiguzi (\u9b3c\u8c37\u5b50) sounds like the ancient Chinese version of Dale Carnegie\u2019s enduring self-help book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.<br \/>\nGiven its contents and message, it should have been a text for the ages. After all, whether ancient, modern, postmodern, Eastern or Western, many of us still need to kiss up to wayward bosses and stroke their egos if we want to advance our careers \u2013 not to mention ancient despots who could chop off your head for saying the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3347806\/how-win-friends-and-influence-people-ancient-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe way Stephen Selby tells it, Guiguzi (\u9b3c\u8c37\u5b50) sounds like the ancient Chinese version of Dale Carnegie\u2019s enduring self-help book, How to Win Friends&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}