{"id":188,"date":"2004-03-02T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2004-03-02T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:42:35","slug":"arbiters-of-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Arbiters of Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/0203\/fe.cf.in.shtml\">article<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\">Reason<\/a> about self-appointed arbiters of taste.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Norman Mailer] was watching astronaut Alan B. Shepard walking on the moon in 1971, when Shepard suddenly took out a secretly stowed golf club and launched a drive at the lunar horizon. Mailer was spiritually mortified. Humankind should have been humbled, literally on its knees, as it entered the cathedral of the universe; instead it drove golf balls through its windows. Whats the matter with people? Give them infinity, and they make it a fairway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought for a long time now that most anti-Americanism is really aesthetic in nature.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\">Language Hat<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article at Reason about self-appointed arbiters of taste. [Norman Mailer] was watching astronaut Alan B. Shepard walking on the moon in 1971, when Shepard suddenly took out a secretly stowed golf club and launched a drive at the lunar horizon. Mailer was spiritually mortified. Humankind should have been humbled, literally on its knees, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arbiters of Taste&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}