{"id":46062,"date":"2012-08-31T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46062"},"modified":"2012-08-31T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:15:40","slug":"what-was-the-dominant-idea-at-the-republican-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46062","title":{"rendered":"What Was The Dominant Idea At The Republican Convention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The dominant idea at the Republican convention was self-reliance. All the stories were of people surmounting adversity and becoming a success. The Democrats have stories about people who are suffering and need government help. Republicans have stories about people who were suffering and worked their tails off and found some success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Polls show that conservatives are happier than liberals. I&#8217;d argue that it is because conservatives are more into self-reliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are happier when they rely on themselves. Why do people fear being incapacitated? Because then you have to rely on others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you argue that relying on the state will make you happier? It can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The dominant idea at the Republican convention was self-reliance. All the stories were of people surmounting adversity and becoming a success. The Democrats have stories about people who are suffering and need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46062\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46062","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=46062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46068,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46062\/revisions\/46068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}