{"id":13,"date":"2005-08-03T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-10-17T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T02:37:22","slug":"the-geeks-vs-the-jockshttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmlhttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmli%e2%80%99ve-just-posted-a-new-political-essay-the-geeks-vs-the-jocks-or-why-liberals-lose-elections-this-one-discusse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-geeks-vs-the-jockshttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmlhttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmli%e2%80%99ve-just-posted-a-new-political-essay-the-geeks-vs-the-jocks-or-why-liberals-lose-elections-this-one-discusse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geeks vs. the Jocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just posted a new political essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/Geeks-vs-Jocks.html\">The Geeks vs. the Jocks or Why Liberals Lose Elections.<\/a> This one discusses the Indo-European origins of modern American, British, and Latin American electoral resistance to intellectuals and women as candidates for high office. It all goes back to the ancient Paleopagan conflicts between the clergy and warrior castes, made worse by Anglo\/Germanic\/Latin homophobia and mammalian power displays. The essay discusses the power of memes and how Democratic, Green, and Libertarian political organizers can fight the bias effectively. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be interested to read your comments.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just posted a new political essay, The Geeks vs. the Jocks or Why Liberals Lose Elections. This one discusses the Indo-European origins of modern American, British, and Latin American electoral resistance to intellectuals and women as candidates for high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-geeks-vs-the-jockshttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmlhttpwwwneopagannetib_bookshtmli%e2%80%99ve-just-posted-a-new-political-essay-the-geeks-vs-the-jocks-or-why-liberals-lose-elections-this-one-discusse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neopagannet-changes","category-politics","category-writing-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}