{"id":10070,"date":"2011-12-19T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/merry-scroogemas\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:22:33","slug":"merry-scroogemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/merry-scroogemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Scroogemas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01675eff5904970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scrooge\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01675eff5904970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01675eff5904970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Scrooge\" \/><\/a>In this season especially we ought to find a kind word to say about the much maligned Ebeneezer Scrooge. Here&#39;s mine: Without Scrooge, the sexually prolific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/christmascarol\/terms\/char_2.html\"><span style=\"color: #810081;\">Cratchit<\/span><\/a> wouldn&#39;t have a job and be able to support his brood! This thought is developed by Michael Levin in <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/article.aspx?Id=573\">In Defense of Scrooge.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And is there not something preternaturally knuckleheaded about the calls from some liberals that the presentation of Dickens&#39; masterpiece be banned? They ought to consider that there is more of anti-Capitalism in it than of Christianity &#8212; an irony that no doubt escapes their shallow pates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this season especially we ought to find a kind word to say about the much maligned Ebeneezer Scrooge. Here&#39;s mine: Without Scrooge, the sexually prolific Cratchit wouldn&#39;t have a job and be able to support his brood! This thought is developed by Michael Levin in In Defense of Scrooge. And is there not something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/merry-scroogemas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Scroogemas!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}