{"id":4851,"date":"2018-01-20T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/smokers-as-contemplatives-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T11:34:53","slug":"smokers-as-contemplatives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/smokers-as-contemplatives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokers as Contemplatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Now that&#39;s a stretch to elicit scorn, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/why-george-will-is-wrong-about-smokers\/\">this article<\/a> does make some good points pushing back against the extremism of the tobacco wackos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The most absurd view of smoking known to me is the one that was the party line of the Rand cult. See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/11\/is-smoking-a-moral-obligation.html\">Is Smoking a Moral Obligation?<\/a> wherein I quote Murray Rothbard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#39;s a stretch to elicit scorn, but this article does make some good points pushing back against the extremism of the tobacco wackos. The most absurd view of smoking known to me is the one that was the party line of the Rand cult. See Is Smoking a Moral Obligation? wherein I quote Murray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/smokers-as-contemplatives-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smokers as Contemplatives?&#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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}