{"id":11976,"date":"2009-12-24T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-scroogemas-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:17:51","slug":"merry-scroogemas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-scroogemas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Scroogemas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0128767ddc2e970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scrooge\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0128767ddc2e970c \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0128767ddc2e970c-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/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 &#0160;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/christmascarol\/terms\/char_2.html\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Cratchit<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> wouldn&#39;t have a job and be able to support his brood!&#0160; This thought is developed by Michael Levin in <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/article.aspx?Id=573\">In Defense of Scrooge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">And is there not something preternaturally knuckleheaded about the calls from some liberals that&#0160;&#0160;the presentation of Dicken&#39;s masterpiece be banned? They ought to consider that there is more anti-Capitalism in it than Christianity &#8212; an irony that no doubt escapes their shallow pates.&#0160; <\/font><\/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 &#0160;Cratchit wouldn&#39;t have a job and be able to support his brood!&#0160; 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\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-scroogemas-2\/\" 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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","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=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}