{"id":7405,"date":"2008-11-23T21:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2008-11-23T21:26:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:26:24","slug":"what-went-wrong-with-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7405","title":{"rendered":"What Went Wrong With The Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this new book &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Sad-Young-Literary-Men\/dp\/0670018554\">All The Sad, Young Literary Men<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from page 234 about how &quot;the Left had failed to replace the deep culture of religion with a culture of its own. &quot;When I attend the funerals of my social-democratic friends,&quot; the elderly editor of the journal had said, &quot;no one knows what to do. Whereas at the funerals of religious friends, everything is minutely prescribed. It&#8217;s very comforting.&quot;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I love the delivery of this novel. It&#8217;s the way my friends and I talk and think and act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this new book &quot;All The Sad, Young Literary Men.&quot; Here&#8217;s an excerpt from page 234 about how &quot;the Left had failed to replace the deep culture of religion with a culture of its own. &quot;When I attend the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7405\">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":[29,24],"tags":[14428,14429,4186,4870,14427],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","category-politics","tag-democratic-friends","tag-excerpt-from","tag-funerals","tag-literary-men","tag-religious-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","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=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}