{"id":58100,"date":"2016-03-24T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58100"},"modified":"2016-03-24T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:17:20","slug":"just-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58100","title":{"rendered":"Just One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/03\/23\/funding-tool-for-midway-area-sharply-divides-council\/\">When I read articles like this<\/a>, I think of those kids who say to their parents, &#8220;If I just get this toy, I&#8217;ll never ask for anything anything.&#8221; Of course it&#8217;s not true and no parent believes it. So, why would we ever believe the city government when they tell us that ifvthey just take some of our money, magic will happen?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because some people \u2013 people who believe in government solves actual problems \u2013 live in a continual state of denial. My<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes: When I read articles like this, I think of those kids who say to their parents, &#8220;If I just get this toy, I&#8217;ll never ask for anything anything.&#8221; Of course it&#8217;s not true and no parent believes it. So, why would we ever believe the city government when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58100","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=58100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58101,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58100\/revisions\/58101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}