{"id":180,"date":"2012-03-29T00:50:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T00:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=180"},"modified":"2012-03-29T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T00:50:29","slug":"should-americans-be-forced-to-buy-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Should Americans Be Forced to Buy Broccoli?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal will say yes, because broccoli is good for you and health care is expensive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s for the common good.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative will say no, because it should be the consumer&#8217;s choice and government is growing too intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>The average American who doesn&#8217;t follow politics will give an answer dependent upon whether or not they like broccoli.\u00a0 If they like it, they&#8217;ll say, &#8220;Well, I like broccoli and it&#8217;s good for you.&#8221;\u00a0 The concept of choice won&#8217;t register in their brain cells.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t like broccoli, they&#8217;ll shake their heads and mutter a little bit about damn politicians, but won&#8217;t know which party to blame.\u00a0 Within a week, they&#8217;ll be buying the required amount of broccoli and will have forgotten the government mandated it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal will say yes, because broccoli is good for you and health care is expensive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s for the common good. A conservative will say no, because it should be the consumer&#8217;s choice and government is growing too intrusive. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}