{"id":75,"date":"2006-08-24T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-08-24T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T23:55:12","slug":"mr-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/08\/24\/mr-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004478\"><\/a>A quote I saw the other day went to the effect of &#8220;(Ayrn Rand) requires the fervent elitism of late adolescence to truly be taken in.  One either needs to acquire a taste for Ayn Rand then, or not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ayn Rand, now that I think about it, would probably sit somewhere in the 20s in my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060761288\/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b\/104-0759904-2677519?ie=UTF8\">100 or thereabouts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560258756\/ref=sr_11_1\/104-0759904-2677519?ie=UTF8\">People who are screwing up America.<\/a> (I can apparently include dead people, since L Ron Hubbard is listed in one of those books.)<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m pondering something here.  Apparently part of her appeal as an intellectual, of some sort, is that she does not hide behind a wall of impenetrable words.  And yet, the biggest by-product of hers in government &#8212; a man who had one foot in her inner Objectivist circle and one foot out, by all accounts &#8212; Alan Greenspan, was nothing if not impenertable in speech.<\/p>\n<p>I have no answer.  Ask Steve Ditko, and get back to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote I saw the other day went to the effect of &#8220;(Ayrn Rand) requires the fervent elitism of late adolescence to truly be taken in. One either needs to acquire a taste for Ayn Rand then, or not at all.&#8221; Ayn Rand, now that I think about it, would probably sit somewhere in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}