{"id":49517,"date":"2014-12-03T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49517"},"modified":"2014-11-30T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:30:54","slug":"overinformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49517","title":{"rendered":"Overinformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Government over-reach.<\/p>\n<p>FDA to require calorie information, even on popcorn at theaters. The theory is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/25\/us\/fda-to-announce-sweeping-calorie-rules-for-restaurants.html?ref=health&#038;_r=1\">giving people more information will enable them to make wise decisions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there a person alive in America who doesn&#8217;t already KNOW that theater popcorn is terrible for them?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a person alive in American who would look at the label on theater popcorn and say &#8220;Oh, Hell no; I&#8217;ll munch some broccoli instead&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Talk about your food deserts &#8211; places where no healthy food is available &#8211; the movie theater is second only to the State Fair.  And nobody goes there to eat healthy, either.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> A third Obama term would no doubt involve Michelle Obama tackling theater fare.  An FDR like fourth term?  State fair grub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Government over-reach. FDA to require calorie information, even on popcorn at theaters. The theory is giving people more information will enable them to make wise decisions. Is there a person alive in America who doesn&#8217;t already KNOW that theater popcorn is terrible for them? Is there a person alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517","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=49517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49518,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517\/revisions\/49518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}