{"id":3209,"date":"2010-06-02T02:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T02:55:45","slug":"hey-lets-mock-objectivism-for-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/02\/hey-lets-mock-objectivism-for-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, let&#8217;s mock objectivism for a bit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThere are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lord_of_the_Rings\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlas_shrugged\">Atlas Shrugged<\/a><\/i>. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.<\/p>\n<footer><a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/ephemera-2009-7.html\">John Rogers<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>No particular reason, just felt in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Plugging-the-Gulf-oil-leak-with-the-works-of-Ayn-Rand\/125031037519289\">Rand-bashing mood<\/a> tonight.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-political-ranting","category-quickies","category-religion-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}