{"id":2942,"date":"2007-02-12T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2007-02-12T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:16:00","slug":"on-culture-and-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"On culture and conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoy reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanappleyard.com\/blog\/\">Bryan Appleyard&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and his articles, which never fail to either inform or entertain &#8211; and often both (he was the man who switched me on to peak oil). There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/media\/article2259500.ece\">interesting interview with him<\/a> at the Independent today: &#8220;The only thing I&#8217;m sure I am is culturally conservative &#8211; the only way you have a culture is being conservative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or as Show of Hands have been singing: we&#8217;ve lost more than we&#8217;ll ever know, round the rocky shores of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly enjoy reading Bryan Appleyard&#8217;s blog, and his articles, which never fail to either inform or entertain &#8211; and often both (he was the man who switched me on to peak oil). There is an interesting interview with him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Ls","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}