{"id":6015,"date":"2010-10-23T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2010-10-23T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:14:40","slug":"how-many-australian-politicians-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/how-many-australian-politicians-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Many Australian Politicians Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/20\/not-completely-relevant-but-how-many-australian-politicians-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb\/\" target=\"_blank\">None<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The (tangential) Free-Range issue here is this: Why are we increasingly subject to rules and regs that have nothing to do with REAL safety and everything to do with litigation, worst-case-scenario-fantasizing and good ol\u2019 CYA? It\u2019s a time, money and morale-waster, with the added benefit of turning competent people into incompetent cowards. Just like so many rules and regs are implementing with kids: No, children, you CANNOT ride your bikes to school. No, children, you CANNOT do your own chemistry experiments. No, children, you CANNOT babysit\/whittle\/get a paper route\/smile at a stranger. It is all TOO DANGEROUS.<\/p>\n<p>And someday we will wonder why no one in the world (except, perhaps, electricians) can do anything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/walterolson\/status\/28488867873\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Olson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None: The (tangential) Free-Range issue here is this: Why are we increasingly subject to rules and regs that have nothing to do with REAL safety and everything to do with litigation, worst-case-scenario-fantasizing and good ol\u2019 CYA? It\u2019s a time, money and morale-waster, with the added benefit of turning competent people into incompetent cowards. Just like [&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":[331,8,53],"tags":[52,374,497,322],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-bureaucracy","category-politics","tag-absurd","tag-children","tag-electricity","tag-nannystate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}