{"id":2488,"date":"2008-08-19T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2008-08-19T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:28:09","slug":"dollar-store-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Dollar store books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I wander intot he dollar store to peruse their book aisle, and I&#8217;m rarely disapointed. As often as not they have a big old stack of cheap books, and today was no exception. <\/p>\n<p>The prize of the lot is &#8220;With a happy eye but..&#8221; by George Will. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not a HUGE fan, bt I picked it up and read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;What is liberalism&#8217;s appeal? Surely less it&#8217;s plausibility than the surprises it provides. Liberals constantly experience the excitement of the unexpected, the thrill of being startled by the unanticipated- if only by them- consequences of their actions&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew then and there I MUST spend a dollar for this book. That paragraph alone was worth it. I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I wander intot he dollar store to peruse their book aisle, and I&#8217;m rarely disapointed. As often as not they have a big old stack of cheap books, and today was no exception. The prize of the lot is &#8220;With a happy eye but..&#8221; by George Will. Now, I&#8217;m not a HUGE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}