{"id":189757,"date":"2010-02-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/16\/south-park-on-ayn-rand\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:58:00","slug":"south-park-on-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/16\/south-park-on-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park on Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really can&#8217;t speak to the qualities of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Atlas Shrugged<\/span>, though I did read Rand&#8217;s treatise <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Virtue of Selfishness<\/span>, and found it <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">extremely<\/span> unpleasant, both from the writing and the underlying philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>As such, I find this bit from <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">South Park<\/span> (1:13) funny.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:150385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false&amp;dist=www.ritholtz.com&amp;orig=\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"400\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really can&#8217;t speak to the qualities of Atlas Shrugged, though I did read Rand&#8217;s treatise The Virtue of Selfishness, and found it extremely unpleasant, both from the writing and the underlying philosophy. As such, I find this bit from South Park (1:13) funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1175,1003,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-literature","category-philosophy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}