{"id":290,"date":"2004-10-25T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2004-10-25T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T06:24:49","slug":"promoting-free-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/25\/promoting-free-markets","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Free Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most beautiful facet of capitalism is the way even its nominal opponents are forced into enhancing its effectiveness. Following in the footsteps of Mike Moore&#8217;s schlocumentary producing corporate empire, it&#8217;s my pleasure to introduce the first issue of Blender&#8217;s Consumer Reports: <a href=\"http:\/\/oh.yeah.cx\/blog\/rant\/centrecom20041021.html\">Centrecom sucks<\/a>. (And don&#8217;t forget to read issue two, <a href=\"http:\/\/oh.yeah.cx\/blog\/rant\/centrecom20041022.html\">Centrecom sucks: I really mean it<\/a> and watch out for the forthcoming followups, with the working titles: <i>You know what sucks? Centrecom<\/i>, and <i>Nothing sucks like an Electrolux? What about Centrecom?<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most beautiful facet of capitalism is the way even its nominal opponents are forced into enhancing its effectiveness. Following in the footsteps of Mike Moore&#8217;s schlocumentary producing corporate empire, it&#8217;s my pleasure to introduce the first issue of Blender&#8217;s Consumer Reports: Centrecom sucks. (And don&#8217;t forget to read issue two, Centrecom sucks: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}