{"id":2731,"date":"2011-01-29T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/01\/29\/proper-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T23:33:14","slug":"proper-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/01\/29\/proper-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Proper hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nVia bOING bOING: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/28\/ayn-rand-took-govern.html\">libertarian saint Ayn Rand used to be on welfare<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAn interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand&#8217;s law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand&#8217;s behalf she secured Rand&#8217;s Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O&#8217;Connor (husband Frank O&#8217;Connor).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Pryor said, &#8220;Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out&#8221; without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn &#8220;despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently&#8230; She didn&#8217;t feel that an individual should take help.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNow that&#8217;s proper hypocrisy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via bOING bOING: libertarian saint Ayn Rand used to be on welfare: An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand&#8217;s law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand&#8217;s behalf she secured Rand&#8217;s Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,90],"tags":[1273],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-wingnuts","tag-ayn-rand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}