{"id":181441,"date":"2021-05-27T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202860"},"modified":"2021-05-27T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:35:42","slug":"no-more-mushrooms-government-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/27\/no-more-mushrooms-government-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Mushrooms: Government is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a book just recently published,\u00a0 I began with a chapter on \u201cWhy Government is Bad.\u201d\u00a0 I first decided that this statement would be obvious to everyone.\u00a0 After all, look around: city, state, national, these governments are all obvious malfunctioning, inept, and largely corrupted operations that clearly are not solving the important problems of our  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/27\/no-more-mushrooms-government-is-bad\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/27\/no-more-mushrooms-government-is-bad\/\">No More Mushrooms: Government is Bad<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/27\/no-more-mushrooms-government-is-bad\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a book just recently published,\u00a0 I began with a chapter on \u201cWhy Government is Bad.\u201d\u00a0 I first decided that this statement would be obvious to everyone.\u00a0 After all, look around: city, state, national, these governments are all obvious malfunctioning, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181469,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181441\/revisions\/181469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}