{"id":12443,"date":"2010-08-05T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2010-08-05T06:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T11:13:37","slug":"there-is-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12443","title":{"rendered":"There Is Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new generation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/hayek-goes-costco\/\">just might turn out OK after all<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;\">Okay, so I\u2019m in the Costco on Coors on the Westside and am browsing through its tables of books for sale and in between \u201cThe Best of Tent Camping\u201d and \u201cShi*t My Dad Says\u201d is F. A. Hayek\u2019s classic \u201cThe Road to Serfdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;\">I was so shocked I damn near dropped my 30-pack case of Bud Light. I\u2019ve come to ignore looking for books in Costco because, although the prices are good, we\u2019re talking John Grisham, James Patterson, and Nicholas Sparks. I\u2019m not a book snob, but I like to read really good writers of fiction, or really good writers of non-fiction. Not formulaic he-said, she-said, predictably plotted genre books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;\">And Hayek is not one of those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;\">Now, the only question is &#8220;will people read a paper book anymore&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new generation\u00a0just might turn out OK after all&#8230;: Okay, so I\u2019m in the Costco on Coors on the Westside and am browsing through its tables of books for sale and in between \u201cThe Best of Tent Camping\u201d and \u201cShi*t My Dad Says\u201d is F. A. Hayek\u2019s classic \u201cThe Road to Serfdom.\u201d I was so [&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-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12451,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}