{"id":771,"date":"2006-03-11T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=771"},"modified":"2006-03-11T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T21:58:00","slug":"liberal-v-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/liberal-v-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal v Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfunnel.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/blind-to-their-actions.html\">Eric<\/A> comments on an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\">DMN<\/A> about a father and son <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/DN-teddy_11met.ART.North.Edition2.f615355.html\">disagreeing<\/A> on political ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The father is a strong supporter of the Republican Party. His son is seventeen, and has recently become interested in the Democratic Party. In protest, the father decided he would cut off his son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college tuition unless the boy switches affiliation. In counter-protest, the son created a Web site called www.onemillionreasonswhy.com, where \u00e2\u20ac\u201d similar to others \u00e2\u20ac\u201d people can buy ads at the rate of one dollar per pixel. He will use that money to pay for school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eric notes that in doing what they&#8217;re doing &#8211; they&#8217;re both going against their claimed ideologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a microcosm, the father essentially created a small welfare state. And the son, faced with an empty bank account and the desire to go to college, is turning a Web page gimmick into a business, thus harnessing the free-market to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pull himself up.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric comments on an article on the DMN about a father and son disagreeing on political ideas. The father is a strong supporter of the Republican Party. His son is seventeen, and has recently become interested in the Democratic Party. In protest, the father decided he would cut off his son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college tuition unless the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/liberal-v-conservative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberal v Conservative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}