{"id":688,"date":"2008-11-02T08:38:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:38:37","slug":"political-wisdom-from-the-bard-by-don-boudreaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/11\/political-wisdom-from-the-bard-by-don-boudreaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Wisdom from The Bard (by Don Boudreaux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.typepad.com\/hayek\/2008\/11\/political-wisdo.html\">Political Wisdom from The Bard (by Don Boudreaux)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As H.L. Mencken observed, &#8220;Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule &#8211; and both commonly succeed, and are right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wisdom from The Bard (by Don Boudreaux): As H.L. Mencken observed, &#8220;Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}