{"id":968,"date":"2024-02-03T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/america-you-dont-understand-us-academics\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T08:37:03","slug":"america-you-dont-understand-us-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/america-you-dont-understand-us-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"America, You Don&#8217;t Understand Us Academics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I am too busy now to comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/02\/03\/america_you_dont_understand_academics_at_all_150420.html\">this self-serving piece<\/a>, but it is not surprising that people who fill their bellies from some job or profession have no trouble finding reasons in justification of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A vegetarian once asked a man who worked in a slaughter house whether he had any moral reservations about his work. The man replied, &quot;People have to eat.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am too busy now to comment on this self-serving piece, but it is not surprising that people who fill their bellies from some job or profession have no trouble finding reasons in justification of it. A vegetarian once asked a man who worked in a slaughter house whether he had any moral reservations about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/america-you-dont-understand-us-academics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America, You Don&#8217;t Understand Us Academics!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}