{"id":178657,"date":"2018-09-29T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/29\/headline-of-the-day-52\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:31:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/29\/headline-of-the-day-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Of Course Ted Cruz Should Be Publicly Ostracized<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/of-course-ted-cruz-should-be-publicly-ostracized\/\">Ian Welsh<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is in response to the hand wringing by Washington&#8217;s &#8220;Very Serious People&#8221; over protesters confronting Cruz in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Welsh has a very good rejoinder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If you could have only one rule for creating a good society it would be the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Elites must experience the consequences of their behavior.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Making Ted Cruz&#8217;s dining experiences uncomfortable is clearly an inadequate response.<\/p>\n<p>When there is no accountability by the decisions made by the elites, their decisions are self interested and destructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Course Ted Cruz Should Be Publicly Ostracized \u2014Ian Welsh This is in response to the hand wringing by Washington&#8217;s &#8220;Very Serious People&#8221; over protesters confronting Cruz in a restaurant. Mr. Welsh has a very good rejoinder: If you could have only one rule for creating a good society it would be the following: Elites &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,464,504,374,595],"class_list":["post-178657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-good-writing","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}