{"id":9220,"date":"2011-05-07T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2011-05-07T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T13:59:21","slug":"lanny-friedlander-patriarch-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/lanny-friedlander-patriarch-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanny Friedlander, Patriarch of <em>Reason<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lanny Friedlander, founder of the libertarian magazine <em>Reason<\/em>, died in March. The <em>New York Times<\/em> and <em>Reason<\/em> magazine both had <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/new-york-times-obituary-for-re\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a> for him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As readers of this site and the print edition of our magazine know, <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s founder, Lanny Friedlander (1947-2011), died in March at the age of 63 from a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> carries an obituary for Lanny. Here are excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><em>Lanny Friedlander, who with little more than a typewriter and a stack of paper founded the libertarian magazine <strong>Reason<\/strong> in his college dorm room in 1968 and ran it briefly before dropping out of sight for the next 40 years, died on March 19 in Lowell, Mass. He was 63&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In its dorm room days, <strong>Reason<\/strong> never attained a circulation of more than a few hundred copies per issue. Today, the magazine is a glossy publication with a monthly circulation of about 50,000; its Web site receives four million visits a month. <strong>Reason.tv<\/strong> broadcasts original and archival video programming online.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanny Friedlander, founder of the libertarian magazine Reason, died in March. The New York Times and Reason magazine both had obituaries for him: As readers of this site and the print edition of our magazine know, Reason&#8216;s founder, Lanny Friedlander (1947-2011), died in March at the age of 63 from a heart attack. Today&#8217;s New [&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":[10,28],"tags":[550,477,293],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","tag-libertarianism","tag-magazines","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","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=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}