{"id":753,"date":"2006-11-21T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2006-11-21T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T11:56:22","slug":"food_for_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/21\/food_for_thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an idea that jumped out at me from my morning-commute reading matter:<\/p>\n

\nThe Right doesn’t like to acknowledge that the power and authority of a government can be a good thing, up to a point, in the hands of a genius. The Left doesn’t like to acknowledge that geniuses are few and far between.<\/p>\n

–David Gelernter, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an idea that jumped out at me from my morning-commute reading matter: The Right doesn’t like to acknowledge that the power and authority of a government can be a good thing, up to a point, in the hands of a genius. The Left doesn’t like to acknowledge that geniuses are few and far between. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}