{"id":82306,"date":"2022-06-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82306"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:53:52","slug":"take-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82306","title":{"rendered":"Take A Number"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I read a rant about government being inefficient and more of a hindrance than a help.  That&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature.<br><br>Most government exists to regulate activities: set standards for operation; inspect to ensure compliance; license to permit operation while in compliance; revoke license for non-compliance; arrest, prosecute and sentence for operating without a license; data entry to record inspections, licenses, payments and revocations; none of which &#8216;makes&#8217; anything or reduces any burdens on commerce, but all of which is Necessary For The Public Good.<br><br>I&#8217;d write more but it&#8217;s time for my break.  Take a number.  I&#8217;ll get to you in a minute.<br><br>Joe Doakes<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s biggest job of course \u2013 perpetuated self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I read a rant about government being inefficient and more of a hindrance than a help. That&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature. Most government exists to regulate activities: set standards for operation; inspect to ensure compliance; license to permit operation while in compliance; revoke license for non-compliance; arrest, [&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-82306","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\/82306","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=82306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82307,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82306\/revisions\/82307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}