{"id":45154,"date":"2012-07-18T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45154"},"modified":"2012-07-18T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:54:47","slug":"workin-men-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45154","title":{"rendered":"Workin&#8217; Men And Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Monday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;When the president talks to people he respects, he says &#8216;working&#8217;. When he&#8217;s on the road campaigning, he says &#8216;workin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of my teachers at college were instrumental in any way to my professional success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s what did enable my professional success: Health. A stable family structure. A strong religious value system, which taught me deferred gratification, without which you can never succeed. If you want to be gratified immediately, you can never succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raw talent. The government did not give me my talent. Hard work. I&#8217;ve worked hard since high school. Many hours a day, six days a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I acknowledge that driving to speeches was made possible by government roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The left-wing deprecation of the individual is at heart here. You and I aren&#8217;t worth much. The state is worth much. You&#8217;re a nothing without the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis says it is only men who ask him to sign their chests. &#8220;There must be something about the nature of my show that precludes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Howard Stern used to do breast exams on his show but that was to prevent breast cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a man on FM radio whose big thing was signing women&#8217;s chests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sean McConnell, Prager&#8217;s engineer: &#8220;Bill Bennett?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;Tom Leykis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Monday, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;When the president talks to people he respects, he says &#8216;working&#8217;. When he&#8217;s on the road campaigning, he says &#8216;workin&#8217;.&#8221; &#8220;None of my teachers at college were instrumental in any way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45161,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45154\/revisions\/45161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}