{"id":1449,"date":"2008-08-14T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1449"},"modified":"2008-08-14T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:25:05","slug":"the-anarchists-are-not-who-you-think-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1449","title":{"rendered":"The Anarchists Are Not Who You Think They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from Fred Clark&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/\">Slacktivist<\/a>, which you should read more often&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;You&rsquo;ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn&rsquo;t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>-G.K. Chesterton &#8211; <em>The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted from Fred Clark&#8217;s blog, Slacktivist, which you should read more often&#8230; &quot;You&rsquo;ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,78],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-right-wing-mindset","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}