{"id":1183,"date":"2010-10-02T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2010-10-02T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:46:39","slug":"quote-259-on-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2010\/10\/02\/quote-259-on-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #259: On Ayn Rand&#8217;s &#8216;Atlas Shrugged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>\tThere are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">John Rogers, on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/\">Kung Fu Monkey<\/a>, as quoted on rec.arts.sf.written by James Nicoll, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paclink.com\/~ascott\/they\/quotesr.htm\">here<\/a> and Paul Krugman (h\/t WJJ)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-j5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}