{"id":5991,"date":"2010-07-03T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2010-07-08T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T19:53:53","slug":"a-humorous-%e2%80%93-yet-startling-%e2%80%93-brush-with-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5991\/a-humorous-%e2%80%93-yet-startling-%e2%80%93-brush-with-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Humorous \u2013 Yet Startling \u2013 Brush With Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.nationalreview.com\/dest\/2010\/07\/01\/descriptionp084206lamplabeling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.nationalreview.com\/dest\/2010\/07\/01\/descriptionp084206lamplabeling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Near the end of Deroy Murdock\u2019s column discussing the insanity of <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/437464\/the-all-american-light-bulb-dims-as-freedom-flickers\/deroy-murdock\" target=\"_blank\">the federal government\u2019s upcoming incandescent light bulb ban<\/a> in favor of a mercury-laden replacement comes the iconic gem above.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a detailed \u201chow-to\u201d label design provided ever so helpfully by the Federal Trade Commission to guide bulb packagers.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether to be relieved that the bureaucracy is trying to be this helpful in its mandates or crestfallen that taxpayer money is going to finance this kind of project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ashton\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-12.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of Deroy Murdock\u2019s column discussing the insanity of the federal government\u2019s upcoming incandescent light bulb ban in favor of a mercury-laden replacement comes the iconic gem above. It\u2019s a detailed \u201chow-to\u201d label design provided ever so helpfully by the Federal Trade Commission to guide bulb packagers.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1138,243,1513,300],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bureaucracy","tag-federal-trade-commission","tag-incandescent-light-bulb","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}