{"id":72115,"date":"2019-09-09T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72115"},"modified":"2019-09-08T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:31:53","slug":"my-unofficial-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72115","title":{"rendered":"My Unofficial Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching &#8220;progressives&#8221; and socialists (ptr) complaining about the inevitable results of their own policies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rent has gotten to extortion-level highs in New York City, and there\u2019s a whole lot of lawbreaking that happens because so many working people are on the brink.<br><br>Housing is a right. NY\u2019s rent laws must be enforced if abusive, predatory actors are breaking them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjeHQ1SURp\">https:\/\/t.co\/RjeHQ1SURp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1170412599600734215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Seventy years of rent control, rigid zoning, tenant-centered policy, official hostility to private landlords, and suffocating regulation &#8220;in the public interest&#8221;, and a decent lifestyle in Manhattan is unavailable for less than half a million a year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who&#8217;da thunk it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching &#8220;progressives&#8221; and socialists (ptr) complaining about the inevitable results of their own policies: Rent has gotten to extortion-level highs in New York City, and there\u2019s a whole lot of lawbreaking that happens because so many working people are on the brink. Housing is a right. NY\u2019s rent laws must be enforced if abusive, predatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72115","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=72115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72116,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72115\/revisions\/72116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}