{"id":18308,"date":"2014-09-29T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2014-09-29T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:39:22","slug":"john-oliver-demands-to-know-how-ayn-rand-is-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/29\/john-oliver-demands-to-know-how-ayn-rand-is-still-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Demands to Know How Ayn Rand Is \u2018Still a Thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/em> has the segment &#8220;How is Ayn Rand Still a Thing&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAyn Rand has always been popular with teenagers. She&#8217;s something you&#8217;re supposed to grow out of like SKA music or handjobs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oSk-C7W0L28?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The older people who still haven&#8217;t figured out what&#8217;s wrong with her ideas are in a serious state of arrested development.  They have a firm idea on the way the world ought to be without any understanding that the world is nothing like their idea and never can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has the segment &#8220;How is Ayn Rand Still a Thing&#8221; Ayn Rand has always been popular with teenagers. She&#8217;s something you&#8217;re supposed to grow out of like SKA music or handjobs. The older people who still haven&#8217;t figured out what&#8217;s wrong with her ideas are in a serious state [&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-18308","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\/18308","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=18308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18310,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions\/18310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}