{"id":3657,"date":"2010-02-08T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:51:39","slug":"was-snowmageddon-another-win-for-the-gipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3657\/was-snowmageddon-another-win-for-the-gipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Was &#8220;Snowmageddon&#8221; Another Win for the Gipper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday marked the 99th anniversary of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 It was also the day on which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/local\/Snow-fatigue-sets-in-as-another-storm-takes-shape-83762767.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Snowmageddon&#8221;<\/a> dumped two feet of snow on Washington, D.C., closing government agencies into this week.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence?\u00a0 Or yet another win for the Gipper?<\/p>\n<p>After all, Reagan once lamented the federal government&#8217;s counterproductive overactivity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have all heard that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.\u00a0 Today, if you build a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s consider this a symbolic reverse birthday gift from President Reagan, since every day on which the federal government is shut down is a day on which it isn&#8217;t devising a better mouse to unleash on us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday marked the 99th anniversary of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 It was also the day on which &#8220;Snowmageddon&#8221; dumped two feet of snow on Washington, D.C., closing government agencies into this week. Coincidence?\u00a0 Or yet another win for the Gipper? After all, Reagan once lamented the federal government&#8217;s counterproductive overactivity: &#8220;We have all heard that if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,818,456,817,61],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-reagans-birthday","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-snowmageddon","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}