{"id":324,"date":"2004-03-28T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=324"},"modified":"2007-04-26T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T02:54:36","slug":"322-of-angi-and-smokers-and-irrational-exuberance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"[322] Of Angi and smokers and irrational exuberance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six months and two comments later, I&#8217;ve realized that I&#8217;ve made a mistake in <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=212\">this entry<\/a>. It is supposed to be &#8220;<em>Smoking brings no social benefit to anybody<\/em>&#8221; (excluding the tobacco industry of course) instead of &#8220;<em>Smokers bring no social benefit to anybody<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really argue with <a href=\"http:\/\/home.gt.rr.com\/lorelia\/\">Angi<\/a> because her point is valid. So, a correction perhaps would suffice.<\/p>\n<p>On the technical point, there were two comments, one by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaboobie.com\/\">Jaboobie<\/a> which is gone, no thanks to Haloscan.<\/p>\n<p>On the side note, does anybody remember this Bull?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/99sep\/9909dow.htm\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/99sep\/9909dow.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/. Fair Use.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/dow36000.gif?w=580\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>1999 was almost 5 years ago but it seems like it was just yesterday. How time flies. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six months and two comments later, I&#8217;ve realized that I&#8217;ve made a mistake in this entry. It is supposed to be &#8220;Smoking brings no social benefit to anybody&#8221; (excluding the tobacco industry of course) instead of &#8220;Smokers bring no social benefit to anybody&#8220;. I can&#8217;t really argue with Angi because her point is valid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}