{"id":1625,"date":"2009-07-29T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2009-07-29T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:43:46","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Trillions of dollars in debt.  But the Obama cabinet has come through with &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/135088.html\">$200 million<\/a> in spending cuts.  Woo-hoo.<\/li>\n<li>Congress wants to ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/27\/business\/media\/27drugads.html?_r=1\">drug ads<\/a>.  I can understand it, but this reeks of unintended consequences.  As the NYT notes, many people seek out needed drugs because of these ads.<\/li>\n<li>What qualifies as a job?  A lot <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090728\/ap_on_go_ot\/us_stimulus_counting_jobs_1\">less<\/a> than you&#8217;d think.<\/li>\n<li>Good for <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/rules-panel-works-through-600-amendments-2009-07-28.html\">Jeff Flake<\/a>.  As the GOP falls apart, a few lights remain.<\/li>\n<li>Hitch has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2223673\/\">great take<\/a> on the Gates business.<\/li>\n<li>Post of the day &#8212; does health insurance make you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2009\/07\/27\/does-health-insurance-make-you-fat\/\">fat<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>A great interview about the <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/americas_moral_panic_over_obes.php\">War on Fat<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t happen to agree with everything Campos says about the issue of weight.  But I do agree that the focus on weight (and BMI in particular) has drawn emphasis away from where it should be &#8212; healthy living.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trillions of dollars in debt. But the Obama cabinet has come through with &#8230; $200 million in spending cuts. Woo-hoo. Congress wants to ban drug ads. I can understand it, but this reeks of unintended consequences. As the NYT notes, many people seek out needed drugs because of these ads. What qualifies as a job? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Linkorama<\/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":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-qd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","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=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}