{"id":5540,"date":"2017-05-08T05:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/08\/is-cultural-optimism-justified\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T05:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:14:44","slug":"is-cultural-optimism-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/08\/is-cultural-optimism-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Cultural Optimism Justified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Malcolm Pollack <a href=\"http:\/\/malcolmpollack.com\/2017\/05\/07\/a-bit-more-optimistic\/\">argues<\/a> in the negative. &#0160;I wish I could disagree. I am tempted to quote from Malcolm&#39;s beautifully written entry, but it&#39;s all good, so bang on the link. He is open for comments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Pollack argues in the negative. &#0160;I wish I could disagree. I am tempted to quote from Malcolm&#39;s beautifully written entry, but it&#39;s all good, so bang on the link. He is open for comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-pessimism-and-optimism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","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=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}