{"id":70044,"date":"2019-02-18T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70044"},"modified":"2019-02-18T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:05:39","slug":"surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70044","title":{"rendered":"Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In 1967, just after Congress adopted LBJ\u2019s Great Society including the War on Poverty, Petula Clark had a hit single with \u201cDon\u2019t Sleep in the Subway.\u201d\u00a0<br>50 years later,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2019\/01\/21\/subways-homeless-taking-over-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">sleeping on the subway it still a problem in New York\u00a0<\/a>and it\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-metro-homeless-20180406-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">spreading to Los Angeles<\/a>.\u00a0 At what point do we concede we\u2019ve been defeated, and agree to end the war?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to go to NYC to see this, by the way.   The Vomit Comit (AKA &#8220;Green Line&#8221;) is a <em>de facto<\/em> homeless shelter from after dark until sometime during rush hour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1967, just after Congress adopted LBJ\u2019s Great Society including the War on Poverty, Petula Clark had a hit single with \u201cDon\u2019t Sleep in the Subway.\u201d\u00a050 years later,\u00a0sleeping on the subway it still a problem in New York\u00a0and it\u2019s\u00a0spreading to Los Angeles.\u00a0 At what point do we concede we\u2019ve been defeated, and agree to end [&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-70044","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\/70044","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=70044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70044\/revisions\/70045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}