{"id":4751,"date":"2010-07-29T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2010-07-29T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T12:43:13","slug":"other-things-that-some-economists-discover-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/other-things-that-some-economists-discover-unexpectedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Other things that (some) economists discover <em>unexpectedly<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terrykinder.posterous.com\/other-things-that-surprise-economists\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Kinder<\/a> rounds up a few more things that economists find surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Other Things That Surprise Economists (other than the economy sucks):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunrise<\/li>\n<li>Sunset<\/li>\n<li>Lifetime Television has a lot of chick flicks<\/li>\n<li>Milli Vanilli were lip syncing<\/li>\n<li>Summer<\/li>\n<li>Politicians lie<\/li>\n<li>Gravity<\/li>\n<li>Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Their own shadows<\/li>\n<li>Sneezing<\/li>\n<li>Near beer isn&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>Knock knock jokes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>. . . and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Terry is really poking fun at only <em>some<\/em> economists, but the 90% that work for the government are giving the rest of them a bad name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Kinder rounds up a few more things that economists find surprising: Other Things That Surprise Economists (other than the economy sucks): Sunrise Sunset Lifetime Television has a lot of chick flicks Milli Vanilli were lip syncing Summer Politicians lie Gravity Christmas Their own shadows Sneezing Near beer isn&#8217;t Knock knock jokes . . . [&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":[25,84,57],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-humour","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","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=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}