{"id":28841,"date":"2016-12-28T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28841"},"modified":"2016-12-28T05:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:40:26","slug":"thomas-sowells-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/thomas-sowells-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell&#8217;s farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, he hasn&#8217;t died. At age 86 he&#8217;s simply decided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creators.com\/read\/thomas-sowell\/12\/16\/farewell\" target=\"_blank\">to get out of the news whirl<\/a>, quit his regular column, and spend more time on photography. Is that cool, or what? <\/p>\n<p>Michelle Malkin says an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/12\/28\/thank_you_professor_sowell_132656.html\" target=\"_blank\">eloquent goodbye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he&#8217;s more conservative than many of us diehard lib-anarchists would like. But overall, he was a powerful voice of common sense on economics and liberty and especially against the tomfoolery of eternal racial victimhood. He also won my heart by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/people\/history\/historians-miscellaneous-biographies\/thomas-sowell\" target=\"_blank\">by being such a private person<\/a> and disdaining trendy self-promotion.<\/p>\n<p>So farewell and enjoy being out of the news loop, Dr. Sowell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, he hasn&#8217;t died. At age 86 he&#8217;s simply decided to get out of the news whirl, quit his regular column, and spend more time on photography. Is that cool, or what? Michelle Malkin says an eloquent goodbye. Yes, he&#8217;s more conservative than many of us diehard lib-anarchists would like. But overall, he was a powerful voice of common sense on economics and liberty and especially against the tomfoolery of eternal racial victimhood. He also won my heart by by being such a private person and disdaining trendy self-promotion. So farewell and enjoy being out of the news loop, Dr.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/thomas-sowells-farewell\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thomas Sowell&#8217;s farewell<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28844,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841\/revisions\/28844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}