{"id":3777,"date":"2016-05-04T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:14:21","slug":"irony-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Irony alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The soul of this nation is being revealed before our eyes. We are witnessing an unfolding self-inflicted tragedy. God help us. Only He can.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/727675458792378370\">May 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, an allusion to Donald Trump&#8217;s victory in Indiana yesterday, and Ted Cruz&#8217; withdrawal from the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a good time, then, to recall this passage from Galt&#8217;s speech in Ayn Rands&#8217; <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you\u2019ve always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was <i>supposed<\/i> to happen after all these years of stridently condemning educated men and women of goodwill, of frustrating governance, of exploiting the uneducated and defeated  and malice-eaten and crooning that they were too good for &#8212; dum-da-dum-dum &#8212; <i>The World<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soul of this nation is being revealed before our eyes. We are witnessing an unfolding self-inflicted tragedy. God help us. Only He can. &mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) May 4, 2016 This is, of course, an allusion to Donald Trump&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}