{"id":705,"date":"2008-07-01T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T13:24:54","slug":"head-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Head of society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some look to the pundit class for guidance on the complex and confusing issues of the day.&nbsp; At the cost of several thousands of dollars, this is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/01\/opinion\/01brooks.html?ref=opinion\">David Brooks<\/a> offers his readers:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Socially liberal knowledge workers <strong>naturally <\/strong>want to see people like themselves at the <strong>head of society<\/strong>, not people who used to run Halliburton and who are supported by a vast army of evangelicals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two things.&nbsp; What does &quot;naturally&quot; mean here? Once that&#39;s clear, what is &quot;the head of <strong>society<\/strong>&quot; in a democracy such as ours? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some look to the pundit class for guidance on the complex and confusing issues of the day.&nbsp; At the cost of several thousands of dollars, this is what David Brooks offers his readers:&nbsp; Socially liberal knowledge workers naturally want to see people like themselves at the head of society, not people who used to run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Head of society<\/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":[5,73],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooks","category-inexplicable","tag-david-brooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}