{"id":4943,"date":"2016-10-06T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:54:36","slug":"stupidity-celebrity-plutocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;STUPIDITY, CELEBRITY, PLUTOCRACY&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started with Ronnie: Paul Campos at Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/05\/05\/stupidity_celebrity_plutocracy_donald_trump_is_the_reagan_revolution_on_steroids_and_he_just_might_win\/\">describes<\/a> the way that Reagan ushered in the valorization of stupidity and ignorance as supreme political credentials&#8211;thus making the least qualified, most ignorant and dangerous candidates the coolest and most electable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with Ronnie: Paul Campos at Salon describes the way that Reagan ushered in the valorization of stupidity and ignorance as supreme political credentials&#8211;thus making the least qualified, most ignorant and dangerous candidates the coolest and most electable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}