{"id":81233,"date":"2022-03-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81233"},"modified":"2022-03-21T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T08:30:04","slug":"success-is-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81233","title":{"rendered":"Success Is Failure"},"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>Suppose you build a better mousetrap and the world beats a path to your door.  That&#8217;s a good thing, right?  Creativity?  Progress?  Jobs?  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2022\/03\/santa-barbara-california-may-declare-chick-fil-public-nuisance-due-long-drive-thru-lines\/\">No, it&#8217;s a public nuisance, <\/a>all those people driving their cars to your store, tying up traffic, idling engines (which cause global climate change).  Cars backed up in the turning lane interfere with bicycles, the ne plus ultra of moral superiority and the highest form of virtue signaling there is.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The City must shut you down, for the good of all.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/697618-throughout-history-poverty-is-the-normal-condition-of-man-advances\">Heinlein was right. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: the Starbucks at Snelling at Marshall in St. Paul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Suppose you build a better mousetrap and the world beats a path to your door. That&#8217;s a good thing, right? Creativity? Progress? Jobs? No, it&#8217;s a public nuisance, all those people driving their cars to your store, tying up traffic, idling engines (which cause global climate change). Cars backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,18,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-pc","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233","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=81233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81234,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions\/81234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}