{"id":6321,"date":"2011-06-04T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2011-06-04T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:34:14","slug":"shut-up-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/shut-up-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Do this! Don&#8217;t do that! Eat this repulsive vegetable. Stay away from that tantalizing pastry. Don&#8217;t smoke, don&#8217;t drink, don&#8217;t enjoy any unauthorized pleasure. Don&#8217;t make value judgments. Don&#8217;t confuse us with facts and logic. Do what you&#8217;re told. It&#8217;s for your own good. Wear your seatbelt, wear your helmet, wear a pink ribbon. Smile! Nag, nag, nag. Know-it-alls and busybodies everywhere. Aren&#8217;t you sick of them? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickles.com\/behindtheheadlines\/2000\/nov00\/00-1126c.html\"><strong>&#8212; &#8220;Random Thoughts on Guardianship,&#8221; F.R. Duplantier<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get used to being told what to do. Our government is going to take better and better care of us in the years ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do this! Don&#8217;t do that! Eat this repulsive vegetable. Stay away from that tantalizing pastry. Don&#8217;t smoke, don&#8217;t drink, don&#8217;t enjoy any unauthorized pleasure. Don&#8217;t make value judgments. Don&#8217;t confuse us with facts and logic. Do what you&#8217;re told. It&#8217;s for your own good. Wear your seatbelt, wear your helmet, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Shut Up Already! - Politickles","description":"Do this! Don't do that! Eat this repulsive vegetable. Stay away from that tantalizing pastry. Don't smoke, don't drink, don't enjoy any unauthorized pleasure. D"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,588,1643,1642,1641,24,1644],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-behind-the-headlines","tag-fr-duplantier","tag-it-takes-a-village","tag-paternalism","tag-responsibility","tag-socialism","tag-victimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}