{"id":131,"date":"2013-01-05T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/i-was-ayn-rands-lover\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:26:29","slug":"i-was-ayn-rands-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/i-was-ayn-rands-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Was Ayn Rand&#8217;s Lover&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blogit-cdn.a-lehdet.fi\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2015\/03\/rand.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/blogit-cdn.a-lehdet.fi\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2015\/03\/rand.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i>&#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;\">Not many people know this, but I was once Ayn Rand\u2019s lover. That\u2019s right. The year was 1974. I was a fresh-faced seventeen-year-old, she was a prominent international author\u2014and we were lovers. By \u201clovers\u201d I mean: we were constantly raping each other. Well, first there\u2019d be a long speech. Usually by her. Then we\u2019d gaze deeply at one another, and our souls would begin speaking the only language a man and a woman ever need: the language of mutual self-benefit. Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter. That sort of thing.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;\">George Saunders<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not many people know this, but I was once Ayn Rand\u2019s lover.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"platta":{"numLikes":0,"numComments":0,"category":null,"themes":[],"commercial_partner":null,"thumbnail":"https:\/\/blogit-cdn.a-lehdet.fi\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2015\/03\/rand.jpg","blog_id":38},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogit-cdn.a-lehdet.fi\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2015\/03\/rand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}