{"id":193,"date":"2008-03-29T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:13","slug":"little-eddie-schafer-and-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/little-eddie-schafer-and-his-dad.html","title":{"rendered":"Little Eddie Schafer and His Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Eddie-Schafer-and-his-dad-Harold.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/2\/2b\/Eddie-Schafer-and-his-dad-Harold.jpg\/368px-Eddie-Schafer-and-his-dad-Harold.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Eddie-Schafer-and-his-dad-Harold.jpg\">Eddie<\/a>&#8221; over there on the right, has a tough road ahead of him &#8212; despite his shaggy appearance and obese lapels, he&#8217;s got big shoes to fill.   His dad, a prominent North Dakota businessman, had appointed Eddie to be his successor in taking over the family business.   How do you think Eddie did?  Would a guy named &#8220;Eddie&#8221; ever do well in any career other than car sales or running a pawn shop?<\/p>\n<p>As president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalfriendster.com\/showPerson.php?id=6150&amp;name=Gold-Seal-Company-\">Gold Seal<\/a>, Eddie was in charge of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Bubble\">Mr. Bubble<\/a> fortune, but it didn&#8217;t take long to drop the childish suffix.   Harold Schafer&#8217;s son, now just &#8220;Ed Schafer&#8221;, went on to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.org\/portal\/site\/nga\/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0\/?vgnextoid=8d86ae3effb81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD\">North Dakota&#8217;s governor<\/a> for most of the nineties &#8212; only 11 years after this photo was taken.  He remained politically active after his term, and just recently George W Bush appointed Schafer to the position of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/%21ut\/p\/_s.7_0_A\/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=bios_schafer.xml\">Secretary of Agriculture.<\/a>  Here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarcktribune.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/01\/news\/topnews\/141936.txt\">have a look at Eddie today<\/a>:  he&#8217;s come a long way from a goofy smile and gingham dress-shirts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-111185285674785499?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eddie&#8221; over there on the right, has a tough road ahead of him &#8212; despite his shaggy appearance and obese lapels, he&#8217;s got big shoes to fill. His dad, a prominent North Dakota businessman, had appointed Eddie to be his successor in taking over the family business. How do you think Eddie did? Would a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[259,388,389,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}