{"id":32041,"date":"2012-10-19T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=32041"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:59:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:59:55","slug":"newton-native-trades-hedge-funds-for-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2012\/newton-native-trades-hedge-funds-for-muffins.html","title":{"rendered":"Newton native trades hedge funds for muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newton &#8211; Newton native Ben Gifford used to work for a hedge fund that manages billions of dollars for foreign governments, universities, pension funds and central banks. Now, he is managing muffin orders for his on-the-go bakery,\u00a0Double or Muffin, and loving the change.<\/p>\n<p>After a year and a half working at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, Gifford decided macroeconomics wasn\u2019t for him. A 2006\u00a0Newton South graduate, Gifford thought back to a conversation he had during the summer of 2010 with his friend Sean Pears while waiting in line for coffee at Lincoln Street Coffee in Newton Highlands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/newton\/news\/x470406985\/Newton-native-trades-hedge-funds-for-muffins#axzz29k23tgxV\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton &#8211; Newton native Ben Gifford used to work for a hedge fund that manages billions of dollars for foreign governments, universities, pension funds and central banks. Now, he is managing muffin orders for his on-the-go bakery,\u00a0Double or Muffin, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32042,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32041\/revisions\/32042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}