{"id":69569,"date":"2016-12-27T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69569"},"modified":"2016-12-27T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:58:39","slug":"losing-an-american-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69569","title":{"rendered":"Losing an American Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American journalism \u2013 and in particular, conservative commentary \u2013 has lost a true treasure and an intellectual giant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/12\/my-farewell-column\/\">Thomas Sowell:\u00a0 \u201cMy Farewell Column\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all you&#8217;ve written over the years &#8211; both your commentary, and your books and other academic works.\u00a0 Thanks as well for the insight and truth those works have contained.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your well earned retirement, Dr. Sowell.\u00a0 At age 86, you&#8217;ve certainly earned that.\u00a0 Best wishes.<\/p>\n<p>And to paraphrase a man named Rudyard:\u00a0 <em>\u201cYer a better man than I am, Dr. S.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American journalism \u2013 and in particular, conservative commentary \u2013 has lost a true treasure and an &hellip; <a title=\"Losing an American Treasure\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69569\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing an American Treasure<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}