{"id":84,"date":"2005-08-06T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-08-06T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T13:18:44","slug":"everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-smart-to-ask-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-smart-to-ask-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Too Smart to Ask&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the smartest form of government?<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Jefferson was smart enough to know that in a democracy we get to choose the people who will then screw up our lives&#8230;..  But, in a monarchy the people who will screw up our lives are chosen by divine right, which proves that God has no better luck picking rulers than we do&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the smartest form of government? Thomas Jefferson was smart enough to know that in a democracy we get to choose the people who will then screw up our lives&#8230;.. But, in a monarchy the people who will screw up our lives are chosen by divine right, which proves that God has no better luck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}