{"id":5607,"date":"2010-09-30T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:43:38","slug":"qotd-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/qotd-unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Unintended consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I think of the political blogosphere as a huge commons.  An individual blogger can gain in readership or influence by attacking or ridiculing some enemy, but at the cost of making that enemy stronger in the world as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe that every time the words &#8220;stimulus&#8221; or &#8220;fiscal policy&#8221; are blogged it helps the electoral prospects of the Republican Party, no matter what the content of the blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Cowen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/09\/department-of-unintended-consequence.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Department of Unintended Consequences&#8221;, <em>Marginal Revolution<\/em><\/a>, 2010-09-28<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think of the political blogosphere as a huge commons. An individual blogger can gain in readership or influence by attacking or ridiculing some enemy, but at the cost of making that enemy stronger in the world as a whole. I also believe that every time the words &#8220;stimulus&#8221; or &#8220;fiscal policy&#8221; are blogged [&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":[25,28,53,41],"tags":[204,188,379],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-blogging","tag-electionwatch","tag-stimulus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","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=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}