{"id":1159,"date":"2003-11-10T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2005-08-27T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T07:09:27","slug":"qotd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"QotD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epeus.blogspot.com\/2003_10_01_epeus_archive.html#106632011746142844\">Kevin Marks<\/a>, whom I had not read before, cites Jerome K Jerome (author of <i>Three Men in a Boat<\/i>) on economics: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become! &ndash; not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists &mdash; a system modelled apparently upon the methods of the convict prison &ndash; a system under which each miserable sinner is to be compelled to labour, like a beast of burden, for no personal benefit to himself, but only for the good of the community &ndash; a world where there are to be no men, but only numbers &ndash; where there is to be no ambition and no hope and no fear, &mdash; but the Socialism of free men, working side by side in the common workshop, each one for the wage to which his skill and energy entitle him; the Socialism of responsible, thinking individuals, not of State-directed automata. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Marks, whom I had not read before, cites Jerome K Jerome (author of Three Men in a Boat) on economics: What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become! &ndash; not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}