{"id":7797,"date":"2014-08-03T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/03\/flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand\/"},"modified":"2014-08-03T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T19:40:58","slug":"flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/03\/flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flannery O'Connor died 50 years ago today.  About Ayn Rand she has this<\/a> to say:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope you don\u2019t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Flannery O'Connor died 50 years ago today.  About Ayn Rand she has this to say: I hope you don\u2019t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw … Continue reading “Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand”<\/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":[40,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","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=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}