{"id":2893,"date":"2008-01-20T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2008-01-20T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:45:34","slug":"2601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/2601\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think the president has to say very credibly and forcefully to the American people that [they] have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world&#8217;s problems. And, therefore, the president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.&#8221; &#8211; <a title=\"Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft - Print Version - International Herald Tribune\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/print.php?id=6194203\">Zbigniew Brzezinski<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/shows\/2007\/07\/12\/1\/an-hour-with-zbigniew-brzezinski-brent-scowcroft-henry-kissinger\">video, with Kissinger and Scowcroft<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think the president has to say very credibly and forcefully to the American people that [they] have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/2601\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-2601","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}