{"id":325,"date":"2006-06-14T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2006-06-14T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T21:03:42","slug":"environmental-fanatics-capture-government-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Fanatics Capture Government Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/JohnStossel\/2006\/06\/14\/201170.html\">John Stossel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How would environmental fanatics capture a government agency? Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot?<\/p>\n<p>In government, the zealots eventually take over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/JohnStossel\/2006\/06\/14\/201170.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: John Stossel &#8220;How would environmental fanatics capture a government agency? Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}