{"id":1434,"date":"2009-04-23T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/blanks\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:00:00","slug":"blanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/blanks\/","title":{"rendered":"blanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From an article by James Bovard.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paying people on false pretenses to do unnecessary things is the soul of ____________.<\/li>\n<li>Nowadays, many ____________ programs are hailed in the media for projects that produce little more than sanctimony among participants.<\/li>\n<li>____________ is beloved by politicians because it provides ample photo opportunities of them doing good deeds.<\/li>\n<li>____________ has never performed a credible analysis of the value of the service that its members produce.<\/li>\n<li>The issue is not what ____________ members produce but how it makes people feel about the government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>How many public programs can you name that fit the above model?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article by James Bovard. Paying people on false pretenses to do unnecessary things is the soul of ____________. Nowadays, many ____________ programs are hailed in the media for projects that produce little more than sanctimony among participants. ____________ is beloved by politicians because it provides ample photo opportunities of them doing good deeds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-smoke-and-mirrors","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}