{"id":4362,"date":"2012-12-12T01:32:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2012-12-12T01:32:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:32:42","slug":"jim-henson-i-think-ms-rand-and-my-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>JIM HENSON<br \/>\n    I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea. <\/p>\n<p>\nAYN RAND<br \/>\n    Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve. <\/p>\n<p>JIM HENSON<br \/>\n    He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking. <\/p>\n<p>JIM HENSON<br \/>\n    Isolation. Contempt for others. A hard heart. Yet even he can muster a bit of empathy every now and then. <\/p>\n<p>AYN RAND<br \/>\n    I am not isolated. I have no contempt for others. Millions of people read my books and find my thoughts inspirational. I hardly spend my time on the sidelines in a trash can grumping. <\/p>\n<p>JIM HENSON<br \/>\n    Not yet anyway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Jim Henson and Ayn Rand, along with Yoko Ono and Sidney Nolan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arpanetdialogues.net\/vol-iv\/3\/\">converse on ARPANET, 1976<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/antoine-roquentin.tumblr.com\/\">antoine-roquentin<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This happened.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/davidmanque.tumblr.com\/\">davidmanque<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Just when I thought I couldn\u2019t love Jim Henson more.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jonathanbogart.tumblr.com\/\">jonathanbogart<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Goddamn, I love that man.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/jennifermatarese.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">jennifermatarese<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIM HENSON I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea. AYN RAND Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve. JIM HENSON He has achieved what I think is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4362\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}