{"id":499,"date":"2008-12-23T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-nannty-state-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T13:05:00","slug":"the-nanny-state-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-nanny-state-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nanny State 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people say &#8220;It&#8217;s a free country,&#8221; I always ask where they live, because it sure isn&#8217;t the US.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember when the United States was a fairly free country, but these days just keeping track of all the assaults on our freedoms and civil rights is a full time job.  And those who keep track of the major assaults probably miss the hundreds of minor ones enacted every year.<\/p>\n<p>Reason Magazine just did this short video about various nanny state rules that have been enacted in the past year.  Twenty years ago this would have been considered a spoof.  Today it&#8217;s a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Nanny State 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people say &#8220;It&#8217;s a free country,&#8221; I always ask where they live, because it sure isn&#8217;t the US. I&#8217;m old enough to remember when the United States was a fairly free country, but these days just keeping track of all the assaults on our freedoms and civil rights is a full time job. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}