{"id":24970,"date":"2011-08-25T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-nothing-unusual-about-governor-rick\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:37:21","slug":"there-is-nothing-unusual-about-governor-rick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-nothing-unusual-about-governor-rick\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today\u2019s Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous \u2018GOP\u2019 nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim to be considered \u2018grand\u2019) is this: In any other party and in any other country, an individual may occasionally rise to the top in spite of being an uneducated ignoramus. In today\u2019s Republican Party \u2018in spite of\u2019 is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory. Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/post\/attention-governor-perry-evolution-is-a-fact\/2011\/08\/23\/gIQAuIFUYJ_blog.html\">Richard Dawkins<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/kateoplis.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kateoplis<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today\u2019s Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous \u2018GOP\u2019 nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6uK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}