{"id":7371,"date":"2003-12-03T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/7371\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:48:54","slug":"7371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/7371\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Ms. Postrel, There Is a Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/000722.html\" target=\"new\">commenting<\/a> on David Brooks&#8217; recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/29\/opinion\/29BROO.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists\" target=\"new\"><i>New York Times<\/i> column<\/a> (registration required), asks and then answers her own question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The column, which deserves reading in full, leaves unanswered a rather important question: What&#8217;s the point of Republican political power? Nothing more than job security for a different clique?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel, commenting on David Brooks&#8217; recent New York Times column (registration required), asks and then answers her own question: The column, which deserves reading in full, leaves unanswered a rather important question: What&#8217;s the point of Republican political power? Nothing more than job security for a different clique? Well, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22294,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions\/22294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}