{"id":51381,"date":"2015-02-18T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51381"},"modified":"2015-02-18T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T12:38:05","slug":"while-barack-obama-tries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51381","title":{"rendered":"While Barack Obama Tries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;his darnedest to turn the US into at third-world country, it&#8217;s at least a little reassuring to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2015\/02\/16\/african-country-worlds-third-poorest-heres-turned-things-around\/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=02172014&amp;utm_campaign=influencer&amp;mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoiu6rIZKXonjHpfsX67%2BgoWKS1h4kz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMScVgMq%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm\">it goes both ways<\/a>. \u00a0Almost alone among post-colonial African nations, Botswana chose free markets, representative democracy and a fair, equally-applied rule of law.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvL9gf_F3dg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Obama &#8211; and Governor Dayton &#8211; can learn something from them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;his darnedest to turn the US into at third-world country, it&#8217;s at least a little reassuring to see that it goes both ways. \u00a0Almost alone among post-colonial African nations, Botswana chose free markets, representative democracy and a fair, equally-applied rule of law. Hopefully Obama &#8211; and Governor Dayton &#8211; can learn something from them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381","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=51381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51382,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions\/51382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}