{"id":342,"date":"2008-12-01T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=342"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T02:03:37","slug":"this-hume-on-that-hume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/this-hume-on-that-hume\/","title":{"rendered":"This &#8220;Hume&#8221; on That Hume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel somewhat strange posting this, but I just want everyone to know: <strong>David Hume is not my Ayn Rand! <\/strong>\u00a0I only say this because several people seem to be under the impression that I agree with all of David Hume&#8217;s propositions. Some have mocked the fact that I agree with proposition &#8220;X&#8221; when Hume argued for &#8220;!X,&#8221; and so forth. \u00a0Rather, my selection of the name &#8220;David Hume&#8221; (my real \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=149\">identity is no secret<\/a>) is simply a homage, as the Scottish philosopher was both an unbeliever and a reputed Tory (and in my youth I greatly admired Hume, and to a great extent still do). \u00a0Additionally, I will go on the record to reiterate that those who contribute to this <strong>weblog speak for themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel somewhat strange posting this, but I just want everyone to know: David Hume is not my Ayn Rand! \u00a0I only say this because several people seem to be under the impression that I agree with all of David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/this-hume-on-that-hume\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}