{"id":520,"date":"2007-12-04T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2007-12-04T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:36:48","slug":"childishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Childishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever one&#8217;s position on the desirability or plausibility of government funded health insurance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/30\/AR2007113001785.html\">this remark is just plain childish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>About one thing, Hillary Clinton is, remarkably, both clear and opaque: Jefferson is anachronistic. &#8220;We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can&#8217;t take a sick child to the doctor?&#8221; <strong>Well, okay, what does &#8220;all that&#8221; mean to someone stuck in congested traffic? Or annoyed by the price of cable television? What does Mrs. Clinton mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One can always make this kind of fundamentally crappy, not to mention dishonest, argument.  For anyone&#8217;s view x, replace it with something manifestly different, then claim they are also arguing for that different thing.  For those of you playing along at home, try this out on your friends.  See if it works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever one&#8217;s position on the desirability or plausibility of government funded health insurance, this remark is just plain childish: >About one thing, Hillary Clinton is, remarkably, both clear and opaque: Jefferson is anachronistic. &#8220;We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Childishness<\/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":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}