{"id":27419,"date":"2015-07-22T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27419"},"modified":"2015-07-15T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:00:53","slug":"qotd-the-heinleins-and-the-goldwater-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/qotd-the-heinleins-and-the-goldwater-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Heinleins and the Goldwater campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ginny probably had agreed to the change because she had taken up a new political cause, and the spasms of pain that came on at night interfered with her fund-raising activities for the Barry Goldwater presidential campaign. Heinlein approved of Goldwater, both personally and politically &mdash; a New Deal liberal who had evolved in a sensible way, responding to the actual political realities the country had found itself in after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Ginny was setting up a &#8220;Gold for Goldwater&#8221; fund-raising campaign with five other field workers &mdash; a grassroots organization, outside the somewhat hidebound local Republican hierarchy. &#8220;Spend what you think we can afford,&#8221; he told Ginny. He had been disillusioned with party politics for nearly a decade, but this was a campaign worth fighting.<\/p>\n<p>William H. Patterson Jr., <em>Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better<\/em>, 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ginny probably had agreed to the change because she had taken up a new political cause, and the spasms of pain that came on at night interfered with her fund-raising activities for the Barry Goldwater presidential campaign. Heinlein approved of Goldwater, both personally and politically &mdash; a New Deal liberal who had evolved in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[594,478],"class_list":["post-27419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barrygoldwater","tag-robertheinlein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-78f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27420,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions\/27420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}