{"id":71618,"date":"2019-06-25T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71618"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T21:40:11","slug":"incented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71618","title":{"rendered":"Incented"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A man<a href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2019\/06\/12\/golden-school-mines-attack-police-transient\/\">\u00a0attacked homeless people<\/a>, telling them to get out of his city.<br>Naturally, I deplore violence of any sort.\u00a0 But it got me to wondering &#8211; which is more likely to solve the homeless problem in his town: beating the homeless while demanding they leave, or giving them food, shelter and privileges that law-abiding citizens don&#8217;t get (see, for example, San Francisco)? <br>The article didn&#8217;t say whether homeless people were flocking to that city, or fleeing from it.\u00a0 I wonder . . . . <br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how unaffordable housing had gotten since governments all over the country made &#8220;affordable housing&#8221; a priority. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man\u00a0attacked homeless people, telling them to get out of his city.Naturally, I deplore violence of any sort.\u00a0 But it got me to wondering &#8211; which is more likely to solve the homeless problem in his town: beating the homeless while demanding they leave, or giving them food, shelter and privileges that law-abiding citizens don&#8217;t [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71618","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=71618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71622,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71618\/revisions\/71622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}