{"id":3875,"date":"2007-07-09T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:00:21","slug":"because-tourism-is-congresss-problem-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/because-tourism-is-congresss-problem-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Tourism Is Congress&#8217;s Problem, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070705\/ap_on_go_co\/promoting_tourism_5\" target=\"_new\">Congress looks to boost US tourism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of good will since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks nearly six years ago because of a decline in foreign tourists. Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solution: DisneyNation!<\/p>\n<p>Prepare yourselves for SB 555, which mandates that all attractive women wear short skirts and wings and carry fairy wands and all other women wear villainous stepmother\/stepsister\/witch apparel.  All attractive men must wear pirate garbs (open vests only; no shirts allowed!)  All other men will be issued Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, or other character costumes.  It will be the happiest place on Earth; violation subject to up to fifteen years in prison and\/or $250,000 fines.<\/p>\n<p>Doubt it, gentle reader?  I have three words for you: <i>interstate commerce clause<\/i>.  There&#8217;s nothing that Congress cannot do once it sets its mindlessness to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress looks to boost US tourism: The United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of good will since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks nearly six years ago because of a decline in foreign tourists. Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back. The solution: [&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-3875","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\/3875","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=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17972,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/17972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}