{"id":659,"date":"2008-09-21T22:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-09-21T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T03:28:06","slug":"i-post-these-in-the-hopes-that-somebody-in-government-will-actually-step-back-and-realize-the-insanity-thats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/09\/i-post-these-in-the-hopes-that-somebody-in-government-will-actually-step-back-and-realize-the-insanity-thats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"I post these in the hopes that somebody in government will actually step back and realize the insanity that&#8217;s going on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2008\/09\/an_open_letter.html\">EconLog, An Open Letter to Ben Bernanke, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have excesses. Too many housing units. Too many &#8220;homeowners&#8221; who don&#8217;t have equity in their homes and never did. Too many banks and financial institutions. The excesses need to be worked out by the markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EconLog, An Open Letter to Ben Bernanke, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty: We have excesses. Too many housing units. Too many &#8220;homeowners&#8221; who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-aD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}