{"id":28047,"date":"2015-09-11T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28047"},"modified":"2015-10-11T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:42:13","slug":"qotd-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/qotd-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let it be said at the outset that I have never been an Objectivist nor am I now a Libertarian, albeit, obviously, I share many of their aims. There is much in Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy I admire, and much I despise. She has the odd ability to write pages and pages of very insightful wisdom argued with almost Thomistic rigor and logic, and then to stagger like a screaming drunk into page after page of vituperation and nonsense based on an apparently inability to distinguish radically unalike concepts, such as selfishness versus self-interest, or altruism versus communism.<\/p>\n<p>John C. Wright, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2014\/09\/ayn-rand-as-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ayn Rand as Author&#8221;, <em>John C. Wright&#8217;s Journal<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be said at the outset that I have never been an Objectivist nor am I now a Libertarian, albeit, obviously, I share many of their aims. There is much in Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy I admire, and much I despise. She has the odd ability to write pages and pages of very insightful wisdom [&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":[32,10,41],"tags":[67,86,134],"class_list":["post-28047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-aynrand","tag-criticism","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7in","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047","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=28047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28048,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047\/revisions\/28048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}