{"id":270,"date":"2007-07-10T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/the-problem\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T00:40:30","slug":"the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;They are trying to make us more afraid of fixing the problem than the problem itself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airamerica.com\/maddow\/\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> said this tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\"><i>Countdown<\/i><\/a> about America&#8217;s health care problem. While it can certainly be applied to health care, I think this is basically the conservative position against almost anything progressive. It&#8217;s the best way to maintain the status quo. I think understanding this can make it a lot easier to achieve progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They are trying to make us more afraid of fixing the problem than the problem itself.&#8221; Rachel Maddow said this tonight on Countdown about America&#8217;s health care problem. While it can certainly be applied to health care, I think this is basically the conservative position against almost anything progressive. It&#8217;s the best way to maintain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/the-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Problem<\/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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}