{"id":4142,"date":"2013-04-12T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2013-04-12T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:55:03","slug":"the-kim-jong-un-of-rhetorical-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4142","title":{"rendered":"The Kim Jong-Un of rhetorical analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/12\/opinion\/brooks-bold-on-both-ends.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">David Brooks<\/a>, arguing that sequestration has put government spending well below ideal levels for sustainable economic culture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right now, we are the North Korea of fiscal policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s laying it on pretty thick.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, given the way Republicans talk about Obama being a socialist, it may be the only way to cut through the nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks, arguing that sequestration has put government spending well below ideal levels for sustainable economic culture: Right now, we are the North Korea of fiscal policy. That&#8217;s laying it on pretty thick.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, given the way Republicans talk about Obama being a socialist, it may be the only way to cut through the nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[732],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weak-analogy","tag-argument-by-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}