{"id":464,"date":"2007-08-27T07:32:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2007-08-27T07:32:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T11:32:35","slug":"school-bells-ringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"School bells ringing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This (from <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/27\/opinion\/27krugman.html\">Paul Krugman<\/a>) strikes me as a fairly reasonable argument:<\/p>\n<p>>The truth is that there\u2019s no difference in principle between saying that every American child is entitled to an education and saying that every American child is entitled to adequate health care. It\u2019s just a matter of historical accident that we think of access to free K-12 education as a basic right, but consider having the government pay children\u2019s medical bills \u201cwelfare,\u201c with all the negative connotations that go with that term.<\/p>\n<p>Objections?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This (from Paul Krugman) strikes me as a fairly reasonable argument: >The truth is that there\u2019s no difference in principle between saying that every American child is entitled to an education and saying that every American child is entitled to adequate health care. It\u2019s just a matter of historical accident that we think of access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School bells ringing<\/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":[33,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-arguments","category-krugman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}