{"id":29303,"date":"2021-12-07T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29303"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:28:18","slug":"to-ask-the-question-is-to-answer-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/07\/to-ask-the-question-is-to-answer-it\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ask The Question Is To Answer It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/stltodaycolumns.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/columns\/david-nicklaus\/nicklaus-the-economy-is-booming-why-are-americans-so-glum\/article_80906741-a91a-55e5-bd69-f905edf21c10.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicklaus: The economy is booming. Why are Americans so glum?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/coronavirus\/messenger-of-smoking-masks-and-shifting-views-of-freedom\/article_cc4a8d64-806b-56ce-ad6e-211a6fa7915c.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Messenger: Of smoking, masks and shifting views of freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to be honest, using &#8220;Booming&#8221; to describe how the price of everything has gone up in the last year is a bit of a stretch of optimism.<\/p>\n<p>But, yeah, in an inflationary environment, when the elites and journalists are all about explaining how the inflation is good for you and the loss of freedom is good for you, and you&#8217;re a racist anyway, why are Americans glum?<\/p>\n<p>Must be the grey skies with little chance of snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicklaus: The economy is booming. Why are Americans so glum? Messenger: Of smoking, masks and shifting views of freedom And to be honest, using &#8220;Booming&#8221; to describe how the price of everything has gone up in the last year is a bit of a stretch of optimism. But, yeah, in an inflationary environment, when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303","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=29303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29305,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303\/revisions\/29305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}