{"id":10391,"date":"2012-03-09T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2012-03-09T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:01:05","slug":"ignorance-is-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/09\/ignorance-is-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Is Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline writers at <em>The New York Times<\/em> must be channeling the book <em>1984<\/em> when they came up with headline <a title=\"Paul Krugman article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/09\/opinion\/krugman-ignorance-is-strength.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ignorance Is Strength<\/strong><\/a> for Paul Krugman&#8217;s op-ed piece.\u00a0 The take-away paragraph from the piece is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So whenever you hear Republicans say that they are the party of traditional values, bear in mind that they have actually made a radical break with America\u2019s tradition of valuing education. And they have made this break because they believe that what you don\u2019t know can\u2019t hurt them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Art Bushkin on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/artbushkin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Art Bushkin<\/strong><\/a> for posting this on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline writers at The New York Times must be channeling the book 1984 when they came up with headline Ignorance Is Strength for Paul Krugman&#8217;s op-ed piece.\u00a0 The take-away paragraph from the piece is: So whenever you hear Republicans say that they are the party of traditional values, bear in mind that they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}