{"id":2158,"date":"2017-06-21T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2017-06-21T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:07:01","slug":"means-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/means-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Means-Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand said that a Spanish proverb said that God said, &quot;Take what you want, and pay for it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But <em>instructions<\/em> from God would be redundant. Matter does not <em>obey<\/em> physical law out of fear of punishment or a sense of moral duty; what we call a &quot;law&quot; is a characterization of <em>that which exists<\/em>. So too with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand said that a Spanish proverb said that God said, &quot;Take what you want, and pay for it.&quot; But instructions from God would be redundant. Matter does not obey physical law out of fear of punishment or a sense &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/means-ends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}