{"id":42139,"date":"2014-02-28T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42139"},"modified":"2014-02-28T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:02:02","slug":"lets-be-clear-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42139","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Be Clear Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib’s headline says “Minnesota legislators try to clear confusion over e-cigarettes<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear, here.<\/p>\n

The only “confusion” about e-cigarettes is in the legislature; “do we tax them, do we ban them, \u00a0or both?”<\/p>\n

And around those questions, it’s the legislature – not the state – milling around like stunned cattle.<\/p>\n

Glad we could clear that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Strib’s headline says “Minnesota legislators try to clear confusion over e-cigarettes“. Let’s be clear, here. The only “confusion” about e-cigarettes is in the legislature; “do we tax them, do we ban them, \u00a0or both?” And around those questions, it’s the legislature – not the state – milling around like stunned cattle. Glad we could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42141,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139\/revisions\/42141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}