{"id":48943,"date":"2018-07-18T14:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=48943"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:51:01","slug":"todays-quote-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/07\/a-caveat-on-the-great-tom-wolfe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Weigel on Tom Wolfe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then there was Wolfe\u2019s first novel, <strong><em>The Bonfire of the Vanities<\/em><\/strong>. One of its chapters, \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death,\u201d takes its title from Edgar Allan Poe and with mordant humor dissects the vacuity of Manhattanites consumed (and in some cases destroyed) by their grotesque, over-the-top consumerism. I recently re-read that stunning set-piece and the thought occurred, as it had before, that here was a far more effective polemic against materialism than anything ever issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Weigel on Tom Wolfe: Then there was Wolfe\u2019s first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities. One of its chapters, \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death,\u201d takes its title from Edgar Allan Poe and with mordant humor dissects the vacuity of Manhattanites consumed (and in some cases destroyed) by their grotesque, over-the-top consumerism. I recently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-cJp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48944,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48943\/revisions\/48944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}