{"id":65956,"date":"2018-02-15T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65956"},"modified":"2018-02-15T06:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:33:49","slug":"choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65956","title":{"rendered":"Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Found very different headlines from NPR regarding food choices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/10\/11\/497525337\/tax-soda-to-fight-obesity-who-urges-nations-around-the-globe\">Democrats love telling the poor what to eat when they see fit<\/a>. Tax sugary drinks. They need to eat healthier, why, the tax helps fight obesity:<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/09\/18\/441143723\/people-on-food-stamps-eat-less-nutritious-food-than-everyone-else\">this article<\/a> seems concerned that SNAP recipients may be using food stamps to buy the cheapest food, which &#8220;isn&#8217;t healthy for them,&#8221; and the article even has to question, once again, are SNAP recipients consuming too much sugary beverages?<\/p>\n<p>But, now that Trump is proposing a change, a change in which the government does exert more control over what SNAP recipients might be given to eat, there is all of a sudden a different tone? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2018\/02\/12\/585130274\/trump-administration-wants-to-decide-what-food-snap-recipients-will-get\">Suddenly, Trump is some evil government official trying to tell people what to eat?<\/a> Give me a break.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moral, intellectual and logical inconsistency\u00a0 is less important to Big Left than adherence to narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: Found very different headlines from NPR regarding food choices. Democrats love telling the poor what to eat when they see fit. Tax sugary drinks. They need to eat healthier, why, the tax helps fight obesity: Even this article seems concerned that SNAP recipients may be using food stamps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956","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=65956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}