{"id":955,"date":"2009-11-07T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2009-11-07T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T10:53:00","slug":"if-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/if-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit.php","title":{"rendered":"If Brevity is the Soul of Wit &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then the House's <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125755503417635101.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLEThirdNews\">health care bill<\/a> is the epitome of insanity:<\/p><blockquote><p>The 1,990-page health-care bill in the House is one of the weightiest pieces of legislation on Capitol Hill.<\/p><p>A single-sided copy of it printed by The Wall Street Journal weighed 19.6 pounds, and stood 8.25 inches tall.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Has anyone actually read the whole bill?<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/253c2_6379328854053402400-823491365492850988?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the House's health care bill is the epitome of insanity:The 1,990-page health-care bill in the House is one of the weightiest pieces of legislation on Capitol Hill.A single-sided copy of it printed by The Wall Street Journal weighed 19.6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/if-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}