{"id":67238,"date":"2016-08-02T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67238"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:03:39","slug":"67238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67238","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn wrote the other day about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67193\"><em>Venezuela\u2019s new forced labor policies<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 That forced labor is deemed \u201cnecessary\u201d because the Venezuelan economy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">has been mismanaged into the ground by the Bolivarians<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is having severe difficulties. \u00a0 Basic foodstuffs and commodities like toilet paper are in short supply or are unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday we learned how the Venezuelan \u201cNomenklatura\u201d are getting by.\u00a0 Turns out they\u2019re suffering, too.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re being forced to wear $12,000+ wristwatches.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don\u2019t forget frequent luxury travel.\u00a0 Venezuelan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Commissar<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0President Maduro has traveled \u2013 with a large entourage, of course \u2013 to 32 different countries, taking 132 days, since taking power.\u00a0 That translates to about 11% of his time in office.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Latino <em><a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2016\/08\/01\/venezuela-top-officials-sport-luxury-watches-while-rest-country-starves\/\">has a good story giving more details<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Some animals apparently are indeed more equal than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn wrote the other day about Venezuela\u2019s new forced labor policies.\u00a0 That forced labor is deemed &hellip; <a title=\"\u201cAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67238\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-hugo-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}