{"id":243,"date":"2004-11-09T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2004-11-09T01:03:59","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T08:03:59","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-em-join-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/09\/if-you-cant-beat-em-join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109998428171464918--><\/p>\n<p>An interesting offer from Penny Scott in Vancouver&#8230; <\/p>\n<p align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalchicago.net\/weblog\/images\/jesusland.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kind of takes the edge off John Mauldin&#8217;s open letter to Karl Rove, noted in my last posting. [grin]  More interesting to me for the remapping more than the renaming, as I was blogging similar thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/globalchicago.net\/weblog\/2004_02_01_archive.html#107778050842859781\">last February<\/a>&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t have this map, at that time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalchicago.net\/weblog\/images\/statetaxes.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tax map via <a href=\"http:\/\/red-harvest.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/red-states-and-red-ink.html\">Red Harvest<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/weblog\/images\/statetaxes.gif\">Full size<\/a> and fine print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting offer from Penny Scott in Vancouver&#8230; Kind of takes the edge off John Mauldin&#8217;s open letter to Karl Rove, noted in my last posting. [grin] More interesting to me for the remapping more than the renaming, as I was blogging similar thoughts last February&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t have this map, at that time&#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/09\/if-you-cant-beat-em-join-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join us!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}