{"id":21735,"date":"2015-01-31T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21735"},"modified":"2015-01-31T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T16:14:48","slug":"sigh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21735","title":{"rendered":"Sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why must I agree with <a href='http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-01-29\/joni-ernst-s-bread-bags-and-economic-progress'>Megan McArdle<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>I, too, wore the bread bags. And so did pretty much everyone in my school who didn't have rain boots (and there were a lot of us). I always walked to school, even in kindergarten, and my mother (and step-mother) would make me wear the bags when it was raining or snowing because that's the best way to tromp through two miles of wet and not wreck your feet.<\/p>\n<p>Joni Ernst is a doofus, but bread bags over (or inside) your shoes were plenty common in the 70s and 80s, in upstate NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why must I agree with Megan McArdle ? I, too, wore the bread bags. And so did pretty much everyone in my school who didn't have rain boots (and there were a lot of us). I always walked to school, even in kindergarten, and my mother (and step-mother) would make me wear the bags when [&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-21735","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\/21735","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=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21736,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}