{"id":12511,"date":"2016-01-01T17:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/?page_id=12511"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:59:47","slug":"iii-vi-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/series\/atlas-shrugged\/the-cobra-commander-dialogues\/iii-vi-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cobra Commander Dialogues: III.VI.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><i>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/2015\/12\/atlas-shrugged-antiheroism\/#comment-2416051979\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas Shrugged: Antiheroism<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Philip Rearden:<\/b> I just wanted to really thank you for giving me a job Supreme Commander sir.<br>\n<b>Cobra Commander:<\/b> Not that I particularly mind the praise Trooper but I\u2019m wondering why you\u2019re bothering to interrupt my day with this particular bout of boot kissing?<br>\n<b>Philip Rearden:<\/b> Well, my brother\u2019s assets have been frozen and he\u2019s refused to do anything to help our mother, but thanks to my serving in Cobra I\u2019ve been able to keep her well supplied.<br>\n<b>Cobra Commander:<\/b> Assets frozen hm? Strange, would\u2019ve thought he was the kind of man to not put his faith in banks. In any case, what did your mother do to upset your oh so thick skinned brother that he\u2019s completely cast her from his life?<br>\n<b>Philip Rearden:<\/b> Well she always liked me better than him.<br>\n<b>Cobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2019m shocked.<br>\n<b>Philip Rearden:<\/b> Well I just wanted to note my thanks sir. I\u2019ll just be fading back into being another faceless goon, but I wanted you to know that it\u2019s thanks to you that I and my mother really have a chance of surviving all this chaos and\u2026 and I just wanted to thank you.<br>\n<b>Cobra Commander:<\/b> Yes yes, but that isn\u2019t how we express loyalty here is it Trooper?<br>\n<b>Philip Rearden:<\/b> HAIL COBRA!<br>\n<b>Cobra Commander:<\/b> Excellent.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: Antiheroism. 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