{"id":3596,"date":"2011-04-13T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2011-04-13T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:22:44","slug":"randian-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3596","title":{"rendered":"But what about the camel and the eye of a needle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least Newt Gingrich required new Republican Congressman to read the Federalist Papers back in 1994. <\/p>\n<p>Congressman Paul Ryan requires his staff to read Ayn Rand&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithinpubliclife.org\/2011\/04\/paul_ryan_and_ayn_rand_a_love.html\">Atlas Shrugged<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ayn Rand famously called Christianity &#8220;the best kindergarten of communism possible.&#8221; I wonder what the Moral Majority will make of Ryan other than to agree with him that the Federal budget really puts too much emphasis on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/04\/the-echoes-of-ayn-rand-in-paul-ryans-budget-plan\/237082\/\">the poor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Newt Gingrich required new Republican Congressman to read the Federalist Papers back in 1994. Congressman Paul Ryan requires his staff to read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}