{"id":18130,"date":"2012-12-11T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2012-12-11T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:27:32","slug":"reason-tv-james-payne-on-six-political-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/reason-tv-james-payne-on-six-political-illusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: James Payne on Six Political Illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohmSlu3rzw8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first thing [children] think about of government is that it is like a super parent,&#8221; says author and <em>Reason<\/em> Magazine contributor James Payne. Payne points out that seeing government as having the virtues of a parent &mdash; wisdom, responsibility, money, unlimited funds for whatever you need &mdash; has lead to illusions about what role the government should be playing in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Payne sat down to talk with <em>Reason TV<\/em> at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego, Calif. to discuss his book, <em>Six Political Illusions: A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself<\/em>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first thing [children] think about of government is that it is like a super parent,&#8221; says author and Reason Magazine contributor James Payne. Payne points out that seeing government as having the virtues of a parent &mdash; wisdom, responsibility, money, unlimited funds for whatever you need &mdash; has lead to illusions about what role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[32,25,84,10,28],"tags":[262,347,271],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economics","category-government","category-liberty","category-media","tag-culture","tag-debunking","tag-ethics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions\/18131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}