{"id":264,"date":"2006-10-19T20:54:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-10-19T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T00:54:33","slug":"open-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Open season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone care to identify <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/18\/AR2006101801502.html\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>>But since the Bush tax cuts went into effect in 2003, the economy&#8217;s growth rate (3.5 percent) has been better than the average for the 1980s (3.1) and 1990s (3.3). Today&#8217;s unemployment rate (4.6 percent) is lower than the average for the 1990s (5.8) &#8212; lower, in fact, than the average for the past 40 years (6.0).<\/p>\n<p>After you identify and defend your identification, we&#8217;ll adjust the categories&#8211;and perhaps post your explanation.  So have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone care to identify this? >But since the Bush tax cuts went into effect in 2003, the economy&#8217;s growth rate (3.5 percent) has been better than the average for the 1980s (3.1) and 1990s (3.3). Today&#8217;s unemployment rate (4.6 percent) is lower than the average for the 1990s (5.8) &#8212; lower, in fact, than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open season<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}