{"id":163,"date":"2006-05-24T20:53:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T16:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-05-24T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T16:53:30","slug":"ban-stuff-first-engage-brain-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/163\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Stuff First, Engage Brain Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of\u00a0economic idiocy which serves as a useful\u00a0explanation as to why\u00a0socialists\u00a0never get taken seriously and remain forever frustrated that nobody is being persuaded by their arguments in significant numbers, Brownie from Harry&#8217;s Place <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2006\/05\/24\/something_must_be_done.php\" target=\"_blank\">suggests<\/a> alleviating the UK housing shortage with\u00a0this stroke of genius:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ban the purchase of second (and second, and third, etc..) homes outright<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s consider this for more than the half-second\u00a0Comrade Brownie\u00a0has.\u00a0 If the purchase of a second property is outlawed, who is supposed to provide the nation&#8217;s rental accommodation?\u00a0 Or does each rented property come with a fully fitted landlord with whom you have to share the place?\u00a0 Bad\u00a0news for\u00a0those in a studio, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of\u00a0economic idiocy which serves as a useful\u00a0explanation as to why\u00a0socialists\u00a0never get taken seriously and remain forever frustrated that nobody is being persuaded by their arguments in significant numbers, Brownie from Harry&#8217;s Place suggests alleviating the UK housing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/163\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}