{"id":269,"date":"2011-04-17T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-04-17T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T01:36:00","slug":"atlas-shrugged-the-movie-not-as-bad-as-libertarians-had-feared-it-would-be-by-david-weigel-slate-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Shrugged, the movie: Not as bad as libertarians had feared it would be. &#8211; By David Weigel &#8211; Slate Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2287075\/pagenum\/2\">Atlas Shrugged, the movie: Not as bad as libertarians had feared it would be. &#8211; By David Weigel &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 I plugged this article because I find Ayn Rand&#8217;s philosophy fascinating.\u00a0 But this comment had me on the floor laughing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText\">Anytime somebody admits to liking Rand, the following quote must be brought up:<\/p>\n<p>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old\u2019s  life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish  fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable  heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood,  unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.<\/p>\n<p>It is truly terrifying the percentage of powerful right wing  Republicans, people who have real power to shape the future of this  country, think of Rand as a legit philosopher who had good ideas about  how to structure society.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText\">By some user called Eric<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Shrugged, the movie: Not as bad as libertarians had feared it would be. &#8211; By David Weigel &#8211; Slate Magazine. OK.\u00a0 I plugged this article because I find Ayn Rand&#8217;s philosophy fascinating.\u00a0 But this comment had me on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38,39],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ayn-rand","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}