{"id":15227,"date":"2016-03-11T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:44:35","slug":"disposable-diapers-a-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/disposable-diapers-a-fundamental-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposable Diapers A Fundamental Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/10\/news\/diaper-gap-affordable-obama\/index.html?iid=hp-grid-dom\" target=\"_blank\">The White House wants to bridge the &#8220;diaper gap.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new plan announced Thursday aims to make diapers more affordable for low-income families. The initiative will give low-income families access to diapers that are up to 25% cheaper than the ones they currently buy. In a press call on Thursday, President Obama said the program was made possible through a collaboration with Jet.com, the makers of Cuties diapers and several non-profits. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what families without disposable income and, come to think of it, <em>all families<\/em> used to do?  Use cloth diapers and wash them.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s too icky in the 21st century, I suppose, for a populace accustomed to more and more government programs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m a hypocrite for opposing this because my mother benefited from government programs and used cloth diapers on me and\/or because I use some of my non-tax income to voluntarily buy diapers and accoutrements for people who need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House wants to bridge the &#8220;diaper gap.&#8221; A new plan announced Thursday aims to make diapers more affordable for low-income families. The initiative will give low-income families access to diapers that are up to 25% cheaper than the ones they currently buy. In a press call on Thursday, President Obama said the program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15229,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions\/15229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}