{"id":54324,"date":"2015-07-16T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54324"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:26:21","slug":"54324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54324","title":{"rendered":"Transit Is Painless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is mowing his lawn. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE, fresh from a trip on the Green Line ,ambles up the sidewalk. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hey, Merg! \u00a0Societies that impose punitive taxes on cars, like Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, all have higher qualities of life than the US does!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0OK. \u00a0So?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0So we could do with fewer cars!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Correlation does not equal causation.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0What are you talking about?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0All three of those countries have higher suicide rates than the United States. \u00a0Clearly high taxes and lack of cars make people want to kill themselves.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Why do you hate science?<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is mowing his lawn. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE, fresh from a trip on the Green Line ,ambles up the sidewalk. \u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hey, Merg! \u00a0Societies that impose punitive taxes on cars, like Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, all have higher qualities of life than the US does! BERG: \u00a0OK. \u00a0So? LIBRELLE: \u00a0So we could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,104,123],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-54324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-taxes","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324","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=54324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54326,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324\/revisions\/54326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}