{"id":776,"date":"2003-02-23T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=776"},"modified":"2005-07-29T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T06:38:51","slug":"essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanscene.com\/archives\/2003_02_09_archives.asp#88989760\">Ross Douthat<\/a> writes in part: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that&#8217;s just why it remains on the ideological fringe &#8212; because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Hey, thanks for the idea!<\/p>\n<p>I followed a link or two from <a href=\"http:\/\/agoraphilia.blogspot.com\/\">Glen Whitman&#8217;s Agoraphilia<\/a>, packed with bloggy goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Douthat writes in part: No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that&#8217;s just why it remains on the ideological fringe &#8212; because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}