{"id":127,"date":"2004-10-10T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T01:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=127"},"modified":"2004-10-10T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T03:04:07","slug":"give-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/give-me-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me A Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2004.10.10-GiveMeABreak\/80_1_b.jpg\" alt=\"Give Me A Break\" style=\"float:left; padding-right:1em;\" \/>John Stossel is an anchor of ABC&#8217;s 20\/20.  His book <em>Give Me A Break<\/em> is the best introduction that I know of to the Libertarian perspective. If you&#8217;ve ever heard Stossel report, you should immediately hear his voice come through as you start reading this book. He gets down to business pretty quickly, but he doesn&#8217;t get bogged down in it, so you will always be wanting to read more.<\/p>\n<p>While it is not as securely grounded in in-depth and tested research like the Friedmans&#8217; <em>Free To Choose<\/em>, it is much more engaging reading, and comes highly recommended from yours truly. I have even been known to call it &#8220;The Best Book Ever,&#8221; although I admit that may be a bit of hyberbole. But only a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stossel is an anchor of ABC&#8217;s 20\/20. His book Give Me A Break is the best introduction that I know of to the Libertarian perspective. If you&#8217;ve ever heard Stossel report, you should immediately hear his voice come through as you start reading this book. He gets down to business pretty quickly, but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,13],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics","tag-recommended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}