{"id":44072,"date":"2012-04-07T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/07\/the-people-who-we-call-intellectuals-are-no\/"},"modified":"2012-04-07T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T18:18:02","slug":"the-people-who-we-call-intellectuals-are-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/07\/the-people-who-we-call-intellectuals-are-no\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The people who we call intellectuals are no different from anyone else, except that they have particular privilege. They\u2019re mostly well-off, they have training, they have resources. As privilege increases, responsibility increases. And if somebody\u2019s working 50 hours a day to put food on the table and never got through high school and so on, their opportunities are less than the people who are called intellectuals. That doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re any less intellectual. In fact, some of the best educated people I have known never got past fourth grade. But they have fewer opportunities, and opportunity confers responsibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people who we call intellectuals are no different from anyone else, except that they have particular privilege. They\u2019re mostly well-off, they have training, they have resources. As privilege increases, responsibility increases. And if somebody\u2019s working 50 hours a day to put food on the table and never got through high school and so on, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/07\/the-people-who-we-call-intellectuals-are-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[417,489,490,491,492],"class_list":["post-44072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chomsky","tag-intelectuals","tag-opportunity","tag-power","tag-privilege","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}