{"id":23429,"date":"2015-12-31T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23429"},"modified":"2015-12-31T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:26:40","slug":"goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23429\/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye and Good Riddance to 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/goodbye-to-2015-a-year-of-absurdity-and-overreach\/2015\/12\/30\/16cdaa4a-ae6e-11e5-b711-1998289ffcea_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">sums up the follies<\/a> of the year that was. The only downside of the column is that space prevented it from being much, much longer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This list of 2015 ludicrousness could be lengthened indefinitely, but enough already,&#8221; Will writes. &#8220;The common thread is the collapse of judgment in, and the infantilization of society by, government.&#8221; Take Will&#8217;s advice, pour yourself a stiff drink, and hope for a better year to come.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will sums up the follies of the year that was. The only downside of the column is that space prevented it from being much, much longer. &#8220;This list of 2015 ludicrousness could be lengthened indefinitely, but enough already,&#8221; Will writes. &#8220;The common thread is the collapse of judgment in, and the infantilization of society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4607,602,1501],"class_list":["post-23429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4607","tag-big-government","tag-george-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23432,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions\/23432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}