{"id":987,"date":"2008-10-11T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=987"},"modified":"2008-10-11T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:14:52","slug":"anti-intellectualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Intellectualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let it not be said that the left is immune from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2008\/10\/11\/do-economists-count\/\">running down<\/a> experts when they disagree with them.  The anti-intellectual strain that is emerging in our political discourse is troublesome, to say the least.  And it hurts <a href=\"http:\/\/right-thinking.com\/index.php\/weblog\/at_no_extra_cost_pronuncation\/\">conservatism<\/a> as much as anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it not be said that the left is immune from running down experts when they disagree with them. The anti-intellectual strain that is emerging in our political discourse is troublesome, to say the least. And it hurts conservatism as much as anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}