{"id":73817,"date":"2020-04-10T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73817"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:47:55","slug":"priorities-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73817","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>St. Paul has no money to repair the streets&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73818\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200406_095807-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;but we can afford to send a kid to blow the leaves off the sidewalk around the Rec Center, which is closed because we are all staying home for fear of&nbsp;$1,000&nbsp;fine.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Williamson puts it well:  Politics (in the larger sense &#8211; settling society&#8217;s matters by means of voting) is the least effective means of allocating resources there is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case in point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul has no money to repair the streets&#8230; &#8230;but we can afford to send a kid to blow the leaves off the sidewalk around the Rec Center, which is closed because we are all staying home for fear of&nbsp;$1,000&nbsp;fine.Joe Doakes Kevin Williamson puts it well: Politics (in the larger sense &#8211; settling society&#8217;s matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73817","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=73817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73820,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73817\/revisions\/73820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}