{"id":1713,"date":"2011-06-22T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2011-06-22T18:44:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:44:01","slug":"san-francisco-considering-a-ban-on-the-sale-of-goldfish-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco considering a ban on the sale of goldfish &#8211; really."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;San Francisco is considering a ban on the sale of goldfish. Basically, the government is afraid that people are getting fish as impulse buys and not treating them properly, so they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to allow anyone to buy them at all. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also considering a ban on parents having their babies circumcised.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already banned Happy Meals, as they think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re too enticing to children and parents can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be expected to control what their own kids eat. Also increasingly regulating the daily behavior of its citizens is New York City under Mayor Bloomberg, who has banned trans-fats city-wide and smoking in most of the city and has considered a ban on salt.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of these cities have taken it upon themselves to place their own opinions of what people should or should not be doing above basic liberty. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made it the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role to be a nanny and have ruled individual choice as unimportant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/the-real-story-of-americas-founding\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/the-real-story-of-americas-founding\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;San Francisco is considering a ban on the sale of goldfish. Basically, the government is afraid that people are getting fish as impulse buys and not treating them properly, so they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to allow anyone to buy them at all. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also considering a ban on parents having their babies circumcised. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already banned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}