{"id":3733,"date":"2010-02-11T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:32:38","slug":"john-cole-rewrites-a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/02\/11\/john-cole-rewrites-a-play\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cole (Re)Writes a Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Cole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2010\/02\/11\/this-is-what-obstructionism-nihilism-the-wurlitzer-looks-like\/\">does a fantastic job<\/a> of speculating on exactly what would happen if Congress were to attempt to fix something that most of the population would agree should be fixed &#8211; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americorps.gov\/about\/ac\/index.asp\">AmeriCorps<\/a> stipends should be sufficient enough that members don&#8217;t need to <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/02\/food_stamps.html\">rely on food stamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d describe his post as amusing, except 1) I think it&#8217;s *exactly* how such an effort would play out and 2) it tracks pretty much how the GOP machine reacted to AmeriCorps in 1994-1995.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same clowning, over and over.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s always going to be politics, and not policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cole does a fantastic job of speculating on exactly what would happen if Congress were to attempt to fix something that most of the population would agree should be fixed &#8211; that AmeriCorps stipends should be sufficient enough that members don&#8217;t need to rely on food stamps. I&#8217;d describe his post as amusing, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}