{"id":187,"date":"2002-11-07T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/john_ralston_saul.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:38:47","slug":"john_ralston_saul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/john_ralston_saul.html","title":{"rendered":"John Ralston Saul, what a guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re viewing this weblog as a web page, you might have noticed my <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/index.html#books\">book list<\/a> and seen that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/john-ralston-saul\/index_e.asp\" title=\"His Excellency John Ralston Saul\">John Ralston Saul<\/a>&#8216;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140237070\/crazedmonke0d-20\">The Doubter&#8217;s Companion<\/a> is on my reading list. Saul is probably my favourite writer of philosophy and politics and I have read most of his non-fiction works including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/088784586X\/crazedmonke0d-20\">The Unconscious Civilization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014015373X\/crazedmonke0d-20\">Voltaire&#8217;s Bastards<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140259880\/crazedmonke0d-20\">Reflections of a Siamese Twin<\/a>. This man is easily one of the alpha males of Canada&#8217;s intellectual elite.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought that Saul was one of those supremely intelligent and inflential writer\/professor types. Little did I know that he once ran a Paris-based investment firm and worked as Special Assistant and Policy Advisor to the founding Chairman of Petro-Canada. You can find Saul&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/john-ralston-saul\/biography_e.asp\">biography<\/a> online at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/menu_e.asp\">website of the Governor General of Canada<\/a>. Adrienne Clarkson is a fantastic choice for Governor General, but with John Ralston Saul at her side, it&#8217;s like having two Governor Generals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re viewing this weblog as a web page, you might have noticed my <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/index.html#books\">book list<\/a> and seen that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/john-ralston-saul\/index_e.asp\" title=\"His Excellency John Ralston Saul\">John Ralston Saul<\/a>&#8216;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140237070\/crazedmonke0d-20\">The Doubter&#8217;s Companion<\/a> is on my reading list. Saul is probably my favourite writer of philosophy and politics and I have read most of&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/john_ralston_saul.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;John Ralston Saul, what a guy!&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}