{"id":29404,"date":"2014-12-29T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29404"},"modified":"2014-12-29T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:08:47","slug":"reason-tv-nanny-of-the-year-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/reason-tv-nanny-of-the-year-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> Nanny of the Year for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhgwsu4GMmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 29 Dec 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our nation\u2019s control freaks got even freakier in 2014 \u2013 from jetpacks to parking apps, eco-ATMs and powdered alcohol, they were determined to kill anything cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>They targeted everything from dogs in parks to births at home, and they\u2019ll sic cops on you for hoarding or smelling bad. You might even get busted for doing things that are legal\u2013like vaping while driving, warning motorists about speed traps, or putting up Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>And whether it\u2019s yanking chocolate milk, boogie boards, homemade libraries or sunscreen(?!), the control freaks are (all together now!): Doing it for the children.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fitting, then, that 2014\u2019s Nanny of the Year recipients justified their power grab on the same grounds (although the real reason may have more to do with protecting city officials from future caught-on-tape embarrassments).<\/p>\n<p>Check out how one cop&#8217;s rant (\u201cObama has decimated the friggin\u2019 Constitution\u201d) embarrassed a city council into taking home this year\u2019s top dishonors!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 29 Dec 2014 Our nation\u2019s control freaks got even freakier in 2014 \u2013 from jetpacks to parking apps, eco-ATMs and powdered alcohol, they were determined to kill anything cutting edge. They targeted everything from dogs in parks to births at home, and they\u2019ll sic cops on you for hoarding or smelling bad. You [&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":[8,84,10,13],"tags":[52,156,322,619,98],"class_list":["post-29404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-fail","tag-nannystate","tag-newjersey","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404","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=29404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29405,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}