{"id":5649,"date":"2010-03-02T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2010-03-02T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:03:52","slug":"jerry-pournelle-on-the-united-states-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/jerry-pournelle-on-the-united-states-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Pournelle on the United States in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From his remarks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/view\/2010\/Q1\/view612.html#Tuesday\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember growing up in a land in which it was presumed that people were free to do things, and there were not silly laws about how much grass you must have on it. We don&#8217;t seem to live there any longer.<\/p>\n<p>There are people in this world who want to control others. They tend to become public employees. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From his remarks yesterday: I remember growing up in a land in which it was presumed that people were free to do things, and there were not silly laws about how much grass you must have on it. We don&#8217;t seem to live there any longer. There are people in this world who want to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","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=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}