{"id":5511,"date":"2011-11-12T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2011-11-12T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T18:00:36","slug":"ayn-rands-timeless-novel-of-courage-and-self-sacrifice-comes-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/ayn-rands-timeless-novel-of-courage-and-self-sacrifice-comes-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AYN RAND\u2019s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life\u2026&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/\">Rebecca Watson<\/a> pointed this out in a snork just now and I had to share. <\/p>\n<p>The movie &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; was apparently made (remade, yes?) recently and the DVD is just out. But there is an error on the cover of the DVD that is sufficiently outrageous, according to the film&#8217;s producers, to require a full recall of the DVD and a change in company policy to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the error has been branded &#8220;ideological.&#8221;  That&#8217;s the worst kind, other than salmonella related, so of course the recall makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the post is the phrase in question.  The phrase is supposed to be:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAYN RAND\u2019s timeless novel of rational self-<em>interest<\/em> comes to life\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This made me ROFLMAO for about an hour.  Figuratively, of course. In real life I merely grinned.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Watson pointed this out in a snork just now and I had to share. The movie &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; was apparently made (remade, yes?) recently and the DVD is just out. But there is an error on the cover of the DVD that is sufficiently outrageous, according to the film&#8217;s producers, to require a full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/ayn-rands-timeless-novel-of-courage-and-self-sacrifice-comes-to-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;AYN RAND\u2019s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life\u2026&#8221;<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1qT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}