{"id":3189,"date":"2009-08-21T04:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T04:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2009-08-21T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T04:28:05","slug":"shorter-recommended-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Billing! Dave Schuler<\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/?p=8265\">The Healthcare Reform We Need<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I avoid blogging on most domestic issues. By contrast, Dave at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/\"><strong>The Glittering Eye<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>has been doing a superlative job examining why &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; is a poorly conceived boondoggle ( in my view, as an issue, &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; is also a surefire political loser the moment your party is in power and is expected to actually do something beyond criticizing). Dave has other posts on the subject but I liked this one best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Drezner<\/strong> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/drezner.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/08\/18\/theory_of_international_politics_and_zombies\">Theory of International Politics and Zombies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved this post. It&#8217;s probably the most creative thing Drezner has ever written. Even better, it spawned the next post:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg Sanders<\/strong> &#8211; [Military]\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gregsanders.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/doctrine-and-the-zombie-wars.html\">Doctrine and the Zombie Wars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In spirit, this post reminded me of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mcsweeneys.net\/2003\/04\/22fellowship.html\">the classic blogospheric parody of <strong>Noam Chomsky<\/strong> and <strong>Howard Zinn<\/strong> analyzing <strong><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! ( Told you it was &#8220;Shorter&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Billing! Dave Schuler &#8211; The Healthcare Reform We Need I avoid blogging on most domestic issues. By contrast, Dave at The Glittering Eye\u00a0has been doing a superlative job examining why &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; is a poorly conceived boondoggle ( in my view, as an issue, &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; is also a surefire political loser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}