{"id":53613,"date":"2015-05-29T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53613"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:05:20","slug":"quote-of-the-day-minimum-wage-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53613","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day:  Minimum Wage Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/418926\/checks-chickens-or-pesos-kevin-d-williamson\">on the stupid futility of raising the minimum wage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dollars are just a method of keeping count, and mandating higher wages for work that has not changed at all is, in the long run, like measuring yourself in centimeters instead of inches in order to make yourself taller, or tracking your weight in kilograms instead of pounds as a means of losing weight. The gentlemen in Washington seem to genuinely believe that if they measure their penises in picas they\u2019ll all be Jonah Falcon \u2014 in reality, their interns won\u2019t notice any difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is kind of a rush to say I&#8217;m 5,544 pixels tall &#8211; until I get to &#8220;pixels&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson on the stupid futility of raising the minimum wage: Dollars are just a method of keeping count, and mandating higher wages for work that has not changed at all is, in the long run, like measuring yourself in centimeters instead of inches in order to make yourself taller, or tracking your weight in [&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],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-53613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613","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=53613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53616,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613\/revisions\/53616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}