{"id":2575,"date":"2009-04-01T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2009-03-31T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:23:22","slug":"the-two-novels-that-can-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"The Two Novels That Can Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/ephemera-2009-7.html\">Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life:\u00a0<span>The Lord of the Rings<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span>Atlas Shrugged<\/span>. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mention this as I&#8217;m working myself up to read Atlas Shrugged soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/221335\/march-11-2009\/the-word---rand-illusion\">Stephen Colbert, among others, piqued my interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey: There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life:\u00a0The Lord of the Rings\u00a0and\u00a0Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,46],"tags":[1617,1616,1618],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-prose","tag-atlas-shrugged","tag-kung-fu-monkey","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-Fx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}