{"id":7,"date":"2011-01-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-01-26T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:25:29","slug":"the-war-on-demand-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"The War on Demand &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/24\/the-war-on-demand\/\">The War on Demand &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Krugman says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s becoming clear to me that a substantial number of writers on  economics find the whole idea that the economy can suffer because people  are too thrifty, insufficiently willing to spend, deeply repugnant. I\u2019m  the sort of person who finds the notion that sometimes virtue is vice  and prudence folly interesting; but it\u2019s clear that a number of people  find that notion just plain evil. The world shouldn\u2019t be like that \u2014 and  therefore it isn\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some people can&#8217;t help but see everything as a moral allegory.\u00a0 Some of those see most everything as evil (except themselves and people like themselves), but most of them just can&#8217;t see anything they regard as evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The War on Demand &#8211; NYTimes.com. Paul Krugman says: &#8220;It\u2019s becoming clear to me that a substantial number of writers on economics find the whole idea that the economy can suffer because people are too thrifty, insufficiently willing to spend, deeply repugnant. I\u2019m the sort of person who finds the notion that sometimes virtue is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spradley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}