{"id":3855,"date":"2010-10-10T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2010-10-10T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:57:45","slug":"want-to-improve-the-political-climate-make-economics-a-national-pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/10\/want-to-improve-the-political-climate-make-economics-a-national-pastime\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to improve the political climate? Make economics a national pastime."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the left wants to convince voters the stimulus package was effective, it should focus on teaching Americans basic economic theory. Only then does it stand a chance of making sense. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no sense in arguing over politics with someone who doesn&#8217;t understand the policy being debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the left wants to convince voters the stimulus package was effective, it should focus on teaching Americans basic economic theory. Only then does it stand a chance of making sense. There&#8217;s no sense in arguing over politics with someone who doesn&#8217;t understand the policy being debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}