{"id":10577,"date":"2005-12-14T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/14\/never-say-die\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T13:50:22","slug":"never-say-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/14\/never-say-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Never say die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a country exhausts cemetery space and declares cremation is illegal, where do officials go with dead citizens? They draft plans <a href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/americas\/12\/13\/death.ban.ap\/index.html'>outlawing death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, those who die suffer no penalties. Now there&#8217;s some sharp legislation teeth.<\/p>\n<p>This is the nifty thing about government: passing laws is cheap \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no matter how ridiculous \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and voters rarely hold leaders accountable poor or nonexistent enforcement. And that&#8217;s about all the politics my stomach can take for the next six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a country exhausts cemetery space and declares cremation is illegal, where do officials go with dead citizens? They draft plans outlawing death. Under the bill, those who die suffer no penalties. Now there&#8217;s some sharp legislation teeth. This is the nifty thing about government: passing laws is cheap \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no matter how ridiculous \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}