{"id":439,"date":"2008-12-03T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-12-05T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:37:33","slug":"books-for-secular-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/books-for-secular-cons\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for Secular Cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s godless conservatism you&#8217;re wantin&#8217;, I&#8217;d offer <em>A Mencken Chrestomathy<\/em> by H.L. Mencken, <em>I Can&#8217;t Go On, I&#8217;ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader<\/em>, ed. Richard W. Seaver, and the Loeb <em>Horace: The Odes and Epodes<\/em> by Q. Horatius Flaccus, with an English translation by C.E. Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>You may quibble with Beckett, who must have, er, palled around with commies in his days with the French Resistance, but who, as best I can gather, found politics merely amusing in the 0.001 percent of his time he spent thinking about the subject&nbsp;&mdash; an admirably conservative point of view, in my opinion.  You may quibble with Horace, whose works frequently suggest a belief in the Afterlife (<em>visendus ater flumine languido Cocytos<\/em> etc.); but I think that was just style and habit.  He knew the lights go out.  Now try quibbling with Mencken!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s godless conservatism you&#8217;re wantin&#8217;, I&#8217;d offer A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken, I Can&#8217;t Go On, I&#8217;ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader, ed. Richard W. Seaver, and the Loeb Horace: The Odes and Epodes by Q. Horatius &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/books-for-secular-cons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}