{"id":4166,"date":"2009-10-02T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T23:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2009-10-02T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T23:02:47","slug":"signs-the-writer-knows-their-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4166","title":{"rendered":"Signs The Writer Knows Their Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received my copy of Republican Gomorrah and cracked it open (after doing the usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoburnillustrations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/breakinginbook.jpg\">book binding break-in thing<\/a>&#8230;you all do this with the new books you get&#8230;right&#8230;?).&nbsp; The book is subtitled: Inside the movement that shattered the party.&nbsp; It purports to be about how the religious right subverted, then dominated republican party politics.\n<\/p>\n<p>Opening it to the page after the dedications page, I came across this quote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor<br \/>\nor the good and the evil.&nbsp; The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones<br \/>\nthat have had or have pleasure in love and those that haven&#8217;t and hadn&#8217;t any pleasure in love,<br \/>\nbut just watched it with envy, sick envy.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211;<\/em><strong>Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth, Act I<em>&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I expect the author Max Blumenthal, understands his subject completely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received my copy of Republican Gomorrah and cracked it open (after doing the usual book binding break-in thing&#8230;you all do this with the new books you get&#8230;right&#8230;?).&nbsp; The book is subtitled: Inside the movement that shattered the party.&nbsp; It purports to be about how the religious right subverted, then dominated republican party politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}