{"id":8881,"date":"2013-04-04T05:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/ayn-rand-on-the-abysmal-bastard-c-s-lewis\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T05:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:45:56","slug":"ayn-rand-on-the-abysmal-bastard-c-s-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/ayn-rand-on-the-abysmal-bastard-c-s-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayn Rand on the &#8220;Abysmal Bastard&#8221;  C. S. Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/03\/27\/ayn-rand-really-really-hated-c-s-lewis\/\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>, via Reppert, who&#0160;cleverly speaks of Rand&#39;s &#0160;&quot;Jack-hammering&quot;:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an \u201cabysmal bastard,\u201d a \u201cmonstrosity,\u201d a \u201ccheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta\u00adphysical mediocrity,\u201d a \u201cpickpocket of concepts,\u201d and a \u201cGod-damn, beaten mystic.\u201d (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My posts on&#0160;Rand are collected <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/rand-ayn\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, via Reppert, who&#0160;cleverly speaks of Rand&#39;s &#0160;&quot;Jack-hammering&quot;: Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an \u201cabysmal bastard,\u201d a \u201cmonstrosity,\u201d a \u201ccheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta\u00adphysical mediocrity,\u201d a \u201cpickpocket of concepts,\u201d and a \u201cGod-damn, beaten mystic.\u201d (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.) My posts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/ayn-rand-on-the-abysmal-bastard-c-s-lewis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ayn Rand on the &#8220;Abysmal Bastard&#8221;  C. S. Lewis&#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":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","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=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}