{"id":135623,"date":"2022-02-02T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=135623"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:55:14","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-ayn-rand-on-her-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=135623","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Ayn Rand on Her Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bit of Wisdom from Ayn Rand on Her Birthday. Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayn_Rand\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/220px-Ayn_Rand_1943_Talbot_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.&#8221; ~ Ayn Rand, February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.&#8221; ~ Ayn Rand, February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).&#8221; ~ Ayn Rand, February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bit of Wisdom from Ayn Rand on Her Birthday. Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 &#8220;The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.&#8221; ~ Ayn Rand, February 2, 1905 \u2013 March 6, 1982 &#8220;The smallest minority on earth is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/220px-Ayn_Rand_1943_Talbot_portrait.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135625,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135623\/revisions\/135625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}