{"id":628,"date":"2011-10-09T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=628"},"modified":"2011-10-09T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:36:57","slug":"talking-points-2012-the-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/talking-points-2012-the-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points 2012 &#8211; The Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe argument that the stimulus had zero impact and we shouldn\u2019t have done it is intellectually dishonest or wrong,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you throw a trillion dollars at the economy, it has an impact. I would have preferred to do it differently, but they needed to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/could-this-time-have-been-different\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAiJo0VL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Could this time have been different? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe argument that the stimulus had zero impact and we shouldn\u2019t have done it is intellectually dishonest or wrong,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you throw a trillion dollars at the economy, it has an impact. I would have preferred to do it differently, but they needed to do something.\u201d via Could this time have been different?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4,22],"tags":[34,243,374,375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}