{"id":345,"date":"2007-03-23T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2007-03-23T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:54:51","slug":"false-analogy-you-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"False Analogy? You decide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<blockquote><p>The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to  the doctor. If the doctor says, &#8216;You have to intervene here,&#8217; you don&#8217;t  say, &#8216;Well, I read a science fiction novel that says this isn&#8217;t  important.'&#8221; If the crib&#8217;s on fire you don&#8217;t speculate that the baby&#8217;s  flame retardant&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Al Gore&#8217;s Congressional testimony. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/electioncentral\/2007\/mar\/21\/gore\">Link to the video at TPMCAFE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, &#8216;You have to intervene here,&#8217; you don&#8217;t say, &#8216;Well, I read a science fiction novel that says this isn&#8217;t important.&#8217;&#8221; If the crib&#8217;s on fire you don&#8217;t speculate that the baby&#8217;s flame retardant&#8221; From Al &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">False Analogy? You decide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}