{"id":1115,"date":"2009-01-31T00:12:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-01-31T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:12:01","slug":"why-i-love-capitalism-part-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Capitalism, Part 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rain forests are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/30\/science\/earth\/30forest.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=2&#038;th&#038;emc=th\">recovering<\/a> as nations grow richer and people cease having to chop down jungle so that they can farm or log.<\/p>\n<p>This is an idea libertarians have been pushing for 30 years or more &#8212; that the best way to keep people from chopping down the rain forest was to make them so rich that they <i>didn&#8217;t need to<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain forests are recovering as nations grow richer and people cease having to chop down jungle so that they can farm or log. This is an idea libertarians have been pushing for 30 years or more &#8212; that the best way to keep people from chopping down the rain forest was to make them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Love Capitalism, Part 87<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}