{"id":17537,"date":"2013-01-04T13:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2013-01-04T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:16:36","slug":"not-buying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17537","title":{"rendered":"Not Buying It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If wingnut blogs were demanding that President Romney create a couple of <a href='http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2013\/01\/mint-coin.html'>$1 trillion platinum coins<\/a> in order to pay the government's bills, would lefty blogs be supporting the notion?<\/p>\n<p>I doubt it. They'd be signing petitions about impeachment and agitating that Congress close the apparent loophole ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>It's a gimmick, almost certainly bound to cause at least as much fiscal and economic trouble as it purports to solve. And furthermore, it is something our cautious and drama-averse President would never try. <\/p>\n<p>Might be time to step away from political blogs again. Without the big easy target of an election to talk about, they're starting to get silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If wingnut blogs were demanding that President Romney create a couple of $1 trillion platinum coins in order to pay the government's bills, would lefty blogs be supporting the notion? I doubt it. They'd be signing petitions about impeachment and agitating that Congress close the apparent loophole ASAP. It's a gimmick, almost certainly bound to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}