{"id":1542,"date":"2009-07-29T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/rules-for-radicals\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:42:01","slug":"rules-for-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rules-for-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules For Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins&#8211;or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom&#8211;Lucifer.&#8221; Saul Alinsky<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So reads the 3rd acknowledgment at the beginning of Alinsky&#8217;s <em>Rules for Radicals&#8211;<\/em>a work inspired by the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Now, maybe it&#8217;s just me, but, you know, when I&#8217;m casting about for an inspiration or something motivational, the devil just doesn&#8217;t come to mind.\u00a0 I would have to suspend everything I know about evil, somehow wall that off in my mind, before I could look for something good about the devil to inspire me.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m lacking in a mental capacity that great thinkers possess.\u00a0 Maybe Alinsky was a world-class sociopath who would stoop to any low to justify himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins&#8211;or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-morality","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}