{"id":43333,"date":"2018-05-25T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43333"},"modified":"2018-05-05T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:09:30","slug":"leaving-the-left-part-3-penn-jillette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/leaving-the-left-part-3-penn-jillette\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving the Left &#8211; Part 3: Penn Jillette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OG3Kyk3Xc5A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Economics in the Media<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 17 Jun 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New series on Economics in the Media<\/p>\n<p>It recently occurred to me that many thinking people were once on the political left, but I could not recall having ever heard of someone starting out as a thinking person and subsequently moving to the left.<\/p>\n<p>In this new series we explore some of the people who escaped the left and how they did it.<\/p>\n<p>Original Video:<br \/>\nPenn Jillette at the Cato Institute Benefactor Summit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics in the Media Published on 17 Jun 2016 New series on Economics in the Media It recently occurred to me that many thinking people were once on the political left, but I could not recall having ever heard of someone starting out as a thinking person and subsequently moving to the left. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[10],"tags":[550,268],"class_list":["post-43333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-libertarianism","tag-pennandteller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bgV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333","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=43333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43334,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333\/revisions\/43334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}