{"id":921,"date":"2003-02-06T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2003-02-07T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/07\/solving-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:15:15","slug":"solving-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/06\/solving-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15331,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bash.org\\\/?4753&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240806151255\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.bash.org\\\/?4753&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:16:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 06:06:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:09:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:09:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \\&lt;xterm&#62; The problem with America is stupidity. I&#8217;m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don&#8217;t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bash.org\/?4753\" title=\"#4753\">bash.org Quote Database<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with America is stupidity. I&#8217;m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don&#8217;t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}