{"id":2428,"date":"2013-10-25T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2013-10-25T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:48:02","slug":"sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"SOCK IT TO THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman in the <a href=\"SOCK IT to them   Paul Krugman in the Times talks about the way the U.S. \u201cnews media\u201d [my quotations legitimizes the snake oil spiels of deficit frauds telling us we have no right to the benefits that we\u2019ve paid for:  . . . \u201cSo the next time you see some serious-looking man in a suit declaring that we\u2019re teetering on the precipice of fiscal doom, don\u2019t be afraid. He and his friends have been wrong about everything so far, and they literally have no idea what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d   http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/25\/opinion\/krugman-addicted-to-the-apocalypse.html?_r=0\">Times <\/a>talks about the way the U.S. \u201cnews media\u201d [he uses those words w\/o quotations] legitimizes the snake oil spiels of deficit frauds telling us we have no right to the benefits that we\u2019ve paid for:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the next time you see some serious-looking man in a suit declaring that we\u2019re teetering on the precipice of fiscal doom, don\u2019t be afraid. He and his friends have been wrong about everything so far, and they literally have no idea what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman in the Times talks about the way the U.S. \u201cnews media\u201d [he uses those words w\/o quotations] legitimizes the snake oil spiels of deficit frauds telling us we have no right to the benefits that we\u2019ve paid for: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=2428\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}