{"id":5878,"date":"2009-07-17T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/17\/the-family-the-book\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T21:32:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:32:41","slug":"the-family-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/the-family-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family (The Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have too many books to read in too little time but I&#8217;m making a push. And I&#8217;ve just added to the list one entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060560053?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060560053\">The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0060560053\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I know, everyone else on the planet has already read this and knows about it and since the book was published a very very long time ago (late 2008?) it does not deserve to be discussed in the blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But it is relevant as news because of the connection between various<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20090717\/pl_politico\/25073\"> nefarious players who have done recent stupid stuff <\/a>and the organization outlined in the book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially looking foward to the author&#8217;s discussion of the 18th century preacher Johathan Edwards, which I understand to be absolutely scandalous and novel.  Maybe too novel.  Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, though many of you have already read this book and have much more to say about it than I do, so please &#8230; do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have too many books to read in too little time but I&#8217;m making a push. And I&#8217;ve just added to the list one entitled The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Yes, yes, I know, everyone else on the planet has already read this and knows about it and since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/the-family-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Family (The Book)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1wO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878"}],"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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}