{"id":3260,"date":"2020-03-23T05:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T05:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/when-the-crunch-comes-who-is-important\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T05:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T05:21:46","slug":"when-the-crunch-comes-who-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/when-the-crunch-comes-who-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Crunch Comes, Who is Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My man Hanson:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In a sophisticated society under lockdown, is it more existentially valuable to know how to fix a toilet, replace a circuit breaker, or change a tire, or to be a New York fashion designer, a Hollywood actor, or a corporate merger lawyer? At 9 p.m., when you go downtown in need of a critical prescription, are you really all that furious that a law-abiding citizen who has a gun and concealed [carry] permit is also in line\u2014or would you be more relieved that gun control laws might ensure that his ilk never enters an all-night pharmacy?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/03\/22\/the-virus-is-not-invisible-but-its-exposing-whos-irreplaceable\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My man Hanson: In a sophisticated society under lockdown, is it more existentially valuable to know how to fix a toilet, replace a circuit breaker, or change a tire, or to be a New York fashion designer, a Hollywood actor, or a corporate merger lawyer? At 9 p.m., when you go downtown in need of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/when-the-crunch-comes-who-is-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When the Crunch Comes, Who is Important?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}