{"id":29491,"date":"2012-08-08T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29491"},"modified":"2012-08-08T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:22:15","slug":"the-market-is-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29491","title":{"rendered":"The Market Is Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember ten and fifteen years ago? \u00a0When people were wondering if Microsoft would eventually control the entire online world?<\/p>\n<p>Back when the left was pondering siccing the government&#8217;s anti-trust machinery onto them (even more than they did)? \u00a0And the conservative among us urged caution, because the market would inexorably level the field if it were allowed to?<\/p>\n<p>We, as usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/business\/2012\/08\/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer\">seem to have been proven right again<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember ten and fifteen years ago? \u00a0When people were wondering if Microsoft would eventually control the entire online world? Back when the left was pondering siccing the government&#8217;s anti-trust machinery onto them (even more than they did)? \u00a0And the conservative among us urged caution, because the market would inexorably level the field if it were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29493,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions\/29493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}