{"id":3156,"date":"2011-07-20T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:53:25","slug":"another-day-more-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3156","title":{"rendered":"Another day&#8230;.more stupidity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.before I get to the political stuff&#8230;I do have to relay one bit of trail weirdness&#8230;well&#8230;maybe not weirdness but coolness let&#8217;s say&#8230;.there must have been a huge hatch of those little blue butterflies yesterday&#8230;.there were hundreds of them on the trail and when I went through the swarms they looked just like blue snowflakes blowing in the wind&#8230;just the coolest thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now on to the stupidity&#8230;.there is so much crying on the repub side about deficits that they want try to pass a constitutional amendment to limit the governments ability to respond to slowdowns by codifying the percentage of government spending to an average of the last thirty years&#8230;.basically saying that they can see the future and know what is going to happen 10, 20, 30 years down the road. They didn&#8217;t even see the crash coming in 2008&#8230;.how can they now believe they are prescient? Just another bunch of stupidity by the party of the know-nothings who are proud of their ignorance and who willfully confuse ideology with good policy and who choose ideology over the needs of the citizens of this country&#8230;geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.before I get to the political stuff&#8230;I do have to relay one bit of trail weirdness&#8230;well&#8230;maybe not weirdness but coolness let&#8217;s say&#8230;.there must have been a huge hatch of those little blue butterflies yesterday&#8230;.there were hundreds of them on the trail and when I went through the swarms they looked just like blue snowflakes blowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another day&#8230;.more stupidity&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[402,382],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-tax-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}