{"id":695,"date":"2008-01-16T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T05:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=695"},"modified":"2008-01-16T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T05:17:10","slug":"no-booze-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"No Booze For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I agree that a ban on liquor sales on election day is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesmanreview.com\/breaking\/story.asp?ID=13179\">dumb<\/a>. That&#8217;s the one day when <i>everyone<\/i> needs to drink. And besides, we have a noble tradition, from Washington down, of buying elections with booze.<\/p>\n<p>But this sort of BS argument annoys me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sales of packaged hard liquor are state-controlled in Idaho, and the state reaps the profits. Nally estimated that every Election Day, the state liquor dispensary loses $350,000 to $400,000 in sales. It also takes lots of calls from angry customers wondering why there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Tuesday store closure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no way in hell the state loses that much money in liquor sales. People simply buy their booze the day before or the day after. It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re driving to Utah to buy their liquor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I agree that a ban on liquor sales on election day is dumb. That&#8217;s the one day when everyone needs to drink. And besides, we have a noble tradition, from Washington down, of buying elections with booze. But this sort of BS argument annoys me: Sales of packaged hard liquor are state-controlled in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Booze For You<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-bd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}