{"id":1603,"date":"2005-09-16T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2005-09-16T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T20:55:00","slug":"1603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mightygirl.net\/2005_09_01_archive.html#112683519383301578\">Maggie writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the May 2005 issue of <i>O Magazine<\/i>, &#8220;Brain to Brain: How to Get Anyone to Agree with You.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Howard Gardener, a Harvard cognitive psychologist and author says, &#8220;One interesting fact is that totalitarian leaders almost invariably have not traveled. Hitler didn&#8217;t travel. Stalin didn&#8217;t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. I think they didn&#8217;t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was, maybe unsurprisingly, reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.google.com\/answers\/threadview?id=427087\">how little George W. Bush had traveled<\/a> before becoming President.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unfair comparison, I know &#8212; and in some ways it just goes to prove <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin's_law\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a> &#8212; but there you have it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie writes: From the May 2005 issue of O Magazine, &#8220;Brain to Brain: How to Get Anyone to Agree with You.&#8221; Howard Gardener, a Harvard cognitive psychologist and author says, &#8220;One interesting fact is that totalitarian leaders almost invariably have not traveled. Hitler didn&#8217;t travel. Stalin didn&#8217;t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. I think they &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1603\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}