{"id":5392,"date":"2017-06-28T19:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/28\/john-pepple-is-burned-out\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:46:54","slug":"john-pepple-is-burned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/28\/john-pepple-is-burned-out\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pepple is Burned Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iwantanewleft.typepad.com\/i-want-a-new-left\/2017\/06\/burned-out-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging.html\">I\u2019m burned out<\/a> and will take a break from blogging. Don\u2019t expect to hear much from me before September. Basically, I\u2019m up against total irrationality, and I think it\u2019s worthless to engage in rational argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Agreed, liberals and leftists are beyond the reach of rational argument. They need defeat not debate. Let&#39;s hope it can be achieved by political means. Nevertheless, there are reasons to continue writing political posts. One is to develop one&#39;s ideas. Another is to support and inspire fellow conservatives. A third is to persuade the open-minded and undecided.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m burned out and will take a break from blogging. Don\u2019t expect to hear much from me before September. Basically, I\u2019m up against total irrationality, and I think it\u2019s worthless to engage in rational argument. Agreed, liberals and leftists are beyond the reach of rational argument. They need defeat not debate. Let&#39;s hope it can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/28\/john-pepple-is-burned-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Pepple is Burned Out&#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":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}