{"id":484,"date":"2007-10-02T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2007-10-02T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:16:10","slug":"hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Hard work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/01\/AR2007100101332.html\">Eugene Robinson<\/a> could mean by this:<\/p>\n<p>>There are, as he ought to know, plenty of black conservatives. There are plenty of African American parents teaching their children the same lessons of <strong>hard work<\/strong> and <strong>self-reliance<\/strong> that Thomas&#8217;s grandfather taught him. The black church, I would argue, is one of the more socially conservative major institutions in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hard work&#8221; and &#8220;self-reliance&#8221; are uniquely conservative values?  <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/search_results?qstring=Frank+Luntz\">Frank Luntz<\/a> couldn&#8217;t have said it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what Eugene Robinson could mean by this: >There are, as he ought to know, plenty of black conservatives. There are plenty of African American parents teaching their children the same lessons of hard work and self-reliance that Thomas&#8217;s grandfather taught him. The black church, I would argue, is one of the more socially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hard work<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugene-robinson","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}