{"id":64514,"date":"2017-09-19T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64514"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:23:47","slug":"goalposts-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64514","title":{"rendered":"Goalposts On Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The figures are in: median income was up last year.\u00a0 Everybody made more money.\u00a0 The Obama Recovery is a complete success.<\/p>\n<p>In completely unrelated news, which in no way detracts from the amazing brilliance of the Light Bringer\u2019s economic miracle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/09\/12\/middle-class-income-hit-highest-level-on-record-in-2016-census-bureau-reports\/?deferJs=true&amp;outputType=default-article&amp;utm_term=.0e30ca080fce\">we changed the way we count median income<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks as if the numbers are no longer drawn from fake reports, they\u2019re cut from whole cloth right at the DNC headquarters and pasted directly into the newspaper.\u00a0 If only we had a cadre of trained, professional investigators who could critically examine press releases for believability, much less veracity.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The figures are in: median income was up last year.\u00a0 Everybody made more money.\u00a0 The Obama Recovery is a complete success. In completely unrelated news, which in no way detracts from the amazing brilliance of the Light Bringer\u2019s economic miracle, we changed the way we count median income. Looks [&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":[],"class_list":["post-64514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64514","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=64514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64514\/revisions\/64521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}