{"id":21779,"date":"2013-08-22T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21779"},"modified":"2013-08-21T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:50:43","slug":"qotd-politicians-and-the-world-of-real-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/qotd-politicians-and-the-world-of-real-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Politicians and the world of real jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whenever I hear a politician or pundit talk about a modern economy like they understand it well enough to run it, I want to burst out laughing, or cry, or both. If you can&#8217;t even keep pictures of your dick off the Intertunnel during an election cycle, I imagine being Emperor of the Economic and Social Universe is probably well above your abilities. Politicians have to take tours of factories because to them, everything and everybody in a factory might as well be alchemy performed by men from Jupiter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sippican Cottage&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/sippicancottage.blogspot.ca\/2013\/08\/mene-mene-tekel-upharsin.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin&#8221; <em>Sippican Cottage<\/em><\/a>, 2013-08-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I hear a politician or pundit talk about a modern economy like they understand it well enough to run it, I want to burst out laughing, or cry, or both. If you can&#8217;t even keep pictures of your dick off the Intertunnel during an election cycle, I imagine being Emperor of the Economic and [&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":[831,57,53,41],"tags":[58,859],"class_list":["post-21779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-internet","tag-manufacturing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779","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=21779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21780,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}