{"id":1645,"date":"2016-02-27T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2016-02-27T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T10:37:36","slug":"challenging-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Lego (which means &#8220;play well&#8221;) surpassed Mattel with $2.1B in revenues in the first half of 2015. 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