{"id":2788,"date":"2016-04-15T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:02:06","slug":"friday-15-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/04\/15\/friday-15-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 15 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">13:02 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We&#8217;re doing a few things around the house today, but otherwise taking it easy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I just read an interesting article by Jack Perry: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/04\/jack-perry\/end-not-near\/\">The End is Not Near, It has Begun<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The end is not near. The end has begun. You wanted to know how it will end? Well, take a look around. You\u2019re living in it. If you live in a major city, you already know this or suspect this. If you live in a rural area, you already know the federal government could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn\u2019t affect you that much. We\u2019re not going to fall into some dystopian dog-eat-dog future. We\u2019re going to cease to be the United States and become a collection of different countries..&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Read the whole article. It&#8217;s not unlikely that things will begin to unfold as Perry predicts, although I think his prediction that the federal government will be able to keep things together for 10 or 20 years is probably much too optimistic. More likely, things will catch fire at some point and then the whole thing will go over like a row of dominoes, in a matter of weeks or at most months rather than years.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13:02 &#8211; We&#8217;re doing a few things around the house today, but otherwise taking it easy.\n<\/p>\n<p>I just read an interesting article by Jack Perry: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/04\/jack-perry\/end-not-near\/\">The End is Not Near, It has Begun<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The end is not near. The end has begun. You wanted to know how it will end? Well, take a look around. You\u2019re living in it. If you live in a major city, you already know this or suspect this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/04\/15\/friday-15-april-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 15 April 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}