{"id":6165,"date":"2011-01-08T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2011-01-08T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T16:57:59","slug":"elite-is-not-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6165","title":{"rendered":"Elite is not bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a frightening trend recently: the word &#8220;Elite&#8221; is becoming a loaded word.  The problem is many people these days confuse being good at what one does, or even just being competent, as being &#8220;elitist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Picture a very stupid, self-righteous person demanding &#8220;You think you&#8217;re better than me!?&#8221;  There is a culture of laziness and willful stupidity creeping across America.<\/p>\n<p>Many who voted for disgraced President George W Bush did so because he &#8220;seemed like a regular guy.&#8221;  Because they were averse to being led by someone who thought he was better than them.  In my opinion this is not a good policy!  I want someone smart to be in charge.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is not okay to not bother trying your best.<\/li>\n<li>It is not okay to be foolish and expect others to respect you.<\/li>\n<li>It is, in a very real way, un-American.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This country was founded on idealism and enterprise.  It&#8217;s sad to so many turn away from that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a frightening trend recently: the word &#8220;Elite&#8221; is becoming a loaded word. The problem is many people these days confuse being good at what one does, or even just being competent, as being &#8220;elitist.&#8221; Picture a very stupid, self-righteous person demanding &#8220;You think you&#8217;re better than me!?&#8221; There is a culture of laziness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6166,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/6166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}