{"id":279,"date":"2020-05-07T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=279"},"modified":"2020-05-07T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:37:08","slug":"news-economy-vs-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/07\/news-economy-vs-living\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Economy vs. Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;And what I said when I was with you that night, <strong>there are more important things than living. <\/strong>And that&#8217;s saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us,&#8221; Patrick said Monday night.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-reopening-economy-more-important-things-n1188911\">-Texas Lt. Gov. D. Partick, quoted by NBC news, April 21, 2020<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This quote would sound fitting during a movie involving an alien and\/or military invasion by a murderous, long-time foe to get people to fight a defensive war;<strong> it sounds ill-fitting as a rallying cry to go out to sell things and shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I do write dystopian fiction now and then, but our current timeline is giving me a real run for my money.  What will qualify as dystopian after <strong>this<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And what I said when I was with you that night, there are more important things than living. And that&#8217;s saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us,&#8221; Patrick said Monday night. -Texas Lt. Gov. D. Partick, quoted by NBC news, April 21, 2020 This quote &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/07\/news-economy-vs-living\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: Economy vs. Living&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}