{"id":6286,"date":"2012-08-20T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:38:55","slug":"from-our-department-of-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6286","title":{"rendered":"From Our Department Of What He Said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> &#8220;&#8230;at Power Line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/why-is-there-no-liberal-ayn-rand.php\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Hayward<\/a> asks, &#8220;WHY IS THERE NO LIBERAL AYN RAND?&#8221; He&#8217;s taking off from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/history\/2012\/08\/paul_ryan_and_ayn_rand_why_don_t_america_liberals_have_their_own_canon_of_writers_and_thinkers_.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beverly Gage<\/a> who, slightly less stupidly, asks, &#8220;American conservatives have a  canon. Why don&#8217;t American liberals?&#8221; Sure we have a canon &#8212; it&#8217;s called  Western literature. And it beats the snot out of the sad, long-form  political pamphlets wingnuts like to name-check. You will learn more  about the human condition from the works of novelists, playwrights, and  poets than you ever can from a thousand power freaks&#8217;  blueprints for  the mass production of Procrustean beds.&#8221; \u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/2012_08_01_archive.html#8782484906736154231\">Roy Edroso<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now you know why they want to defund libraries and public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;at Power Line, Steven Hayward asks, &#8220;WHY IS THERE NO LIBERAL AYN RAND?&#8221; He&#8217;s taking off from Beverly Gage who, slightly less stupidly, asks, &#8220;American conservatives have a canon. Why don&#8217;t American liberals?&#8221; Sure we have a canon &#8212; it&#8217;s called Western literature. And it beats the snot out of the sad, long-form political pamphlets [&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":[118],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republican-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","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=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}