{"id":4014,"date":"2019-07-05T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T02:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2019-07-05T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T02:10:51","slug":"robert-a-heinlein-a-writer-as-big-as-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4014","title":{"rendered":"Robert A. Heinlein: A Writer as Big as America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">No, Heinlein didn\u2019t preach. What he did was be an American. Be an American so intensely that it was impossible for his work not to transmit it. The internal logic of the stories themselves led you to believe and think like an American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">I think that\u2019s why the left hates him so much. At least that\u2019s the only reason I can imagine that a writer who went out of his way to have minorities and women in starring roles in his books can be considered \u201cracist, sexist, homophobic.\u201d (Well that, and the fact that the left has heads full of rocks.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">In these days when the Betsy Ross flag is being transmogrified by leftist hate and intolerance into a \u201cWhite Supremacy Symbol\u201d (I ordered one for my yard, btw.) it\u2019s impossible not to realize that what the left is trying to do is cut us off from our own history, our own symbols, and that which makes us uniquely American.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/a-writer-as-big-as-america\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/heinlein-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/a-writer-as-big-as-america\/\">Robert A. Heinlein: A Writer as Big as America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Heinlein didn\u2019t preach. What he did was be an American. Be an American so intensely that it was impossible for his work not to transmit it. The internal logic of the stories themselves led you to believe and think like an American. I think that\u2019s why the left hates him so much. At least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4014\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert A. Heinlein: A Writer as Big as America<\/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":[18,20,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-literature","category-patriotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}