{"id":31,"date":"2007-07-24T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/07\/24\/dead-men-dont-drive-tractors\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T07:49:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:49:39","slug":"dead-men-dont-drive-tractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/dead-men-dont-drive-tractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Men Don&#8217;t Drive Tractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the department of agriculture put their hands in the pockets of their overalls, looked rather sheepishly at the ground and kicked a clump of sod. Then they admitted  they&#8217;ve paid over a billion dollars in subsidies to farmers who were, well, <em>dead<\/em>.  The result is my second favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070723\/ap_on_go_co\/subsidies_dead_farmers\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a> of the year:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unconscionable that the Department of Agriculture would think that a dead person was actively engaged in the business of farming,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070711\/wl_mideast_afp\/iraqunrestanimal_070711154957;_ylt=AmN6odfsI9f0sfRtViwf3UoTO7gF\" target=\"_blank\">favorite quote<\/a>, of course, is &#8220;We have not released giant badgers in Basra.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the department of agriculture put their hands in the pockets of their overalls, looked rather sheepishly at the ground and kicked a clump of sod. Then they admitted they&#8217;ve paid over a billion dollars in subsidies to farmers who were, well, dead. The result is my second favorite quote of the year: &#8220;It&#8217;s unconscionable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}