{"id":15546,"date":"2010-01-01T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15546"},"modified":"2010-01-01T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T19:06:55","slug":"ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15546","title":{"rendered":"Ayn Rand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles emails: <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15157\">Orit Arfa seems very nice<\/a>, but <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayn_Rand\">Ayn Rand<\/a>? Those books made there way around the dorm in yeshiva in Brooklyn and you could always tell who was reading them because they got better posture and wouldn&#8217;t talk to anyone-for about a week. If you see someone reading Fountainhead on the subway you can bet dollars to doughnuts that they are in high school or first year college (or a yeshiva bachur from my old dorm). 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