{"id":7808,"date":"2007-07-05T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2007-07-05T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:30:08","slug":"one-for-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"ONE FOR SKIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that I run into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/features\/lifestyle\/hc-randians.artjul05,0,4627062.story\">Objectivism-related articles<\/a> in my home ed screens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the literary folks aren&#8217;t so keen on Rand. That hasn&#8217;t stopped her from carving out a fair amount of influence. Her followers are a wide and varied bunch. Alan Greenspan has declared himself a devoted Objectivist; so has Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Members of the Canadian band Rush are among the most Randian of rockers. Billie Jean King and Hugh Hefner are also devotees.<\/p>\n<p>There are dating services that cater exclusively to Objectivists, and educational consultants have made a niche for themselves by advising on how to home-school children the Objectivist way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Homeschool consultants?  No one ever said the free market couldn&#8217;t be stupid.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that I run into Objectivism-related articles in my home ed screens. So the literary folks aren&#8217;t so keen on Rand. That hasn&#8217;t stopped her from carving out a fair amount of influence. Her followers are a wide and varied bunch. Alan Greenspan has declared himself a devoted Objectivist; so has Wikipedia founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}