{"id":734,"date":"2004-03-07T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2018-08-10T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:45:11","slug":"734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/07\/734\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming Clue!  Everybody Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special message to Roger K. Miller, a newspaperman for many years and a freelance writer who penned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/reviews.nsf\/Book\/9871BC2B85A945BC86256E4E000BCC41?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Need+facts%3F+Check+out+Slate's+tell-all&#038;highlight=2%2CSlate\" target=\"new\">this book review<\/a> in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FC1BMY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000FC1BMY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=577933bf64f0971530348a3096d7d5d2\" target=\"new\"><i>The Explainer<\/i>, a collection from Slate.com<\/a>.  Mr. Miller, you finish your review with the following throw-away line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Finally, the answer to one entry &#8211; &#8220;What Health Benefits Do Congressman Receive?&#8221; &#8211; raises another question that is, unfortunately, beyond the purview of the Explainer. Which is: <b>Why don&#8217;t the rest of us have that?<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2><flash>Here&#8217;s your FREE CLUE!<\/flash><\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The rest of us don&#8217;t get job benefits for jobs we don&#8217;t have.  For instance, you don&#8217;t get my salary, my health and dental plan, my free, confidential counseling, my 401k match, nor my opportunity to participate in the employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).  Hey, you don&#8217;t get invited to the Christmas party, either.  You know why?  <b>Because you don&#8217;t work there!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I get your ill-placed point, though.  The government should provide all benefits to all people, regardless of their employment situation, personal ability, or drive to succeed.  That&#8217;s a nice story, Brody  I notice you&#8217;ve stopped stuttering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special message to Roger K. Miller, a newspaperman for many years and a freelance writer who penned this book review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for The Explainer, a collection from Slate.com. Mr. Miller, you finish your review with the following throw-away line: Finally, the answer to one entry &#8211; &#8220;What Health Benefits Do Congressman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22712,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/22712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}