{"id":82374,"date":"2018-10-17T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82374"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:12:26","slug":"a-somewhat-different-feel-good-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82374","title":{"rendered":"A Somewhat Different &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here\u2019s a different kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/37221\/us-returns-1-economic-category-first-time-2008-ryan-saavedra\"><i>\u201cfeel good story\u201d<\/i><\/a> for our readers.  The money quote, with emphasis added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The United States returned to the top spot <i>as the most competitive country in the world <b>for the first time since 2008<\/b><\/i> after it made the second highest overall gain from the previous year&#8217;s ranking from the World Economic Forum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The year being considered was 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Gee.  I wonder what might have caused that?<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t think having reasonable adults vice naive, petulant children running things in DC could have had anything to do with it &#8211; do ya? <\/p>\n<p>(smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here\u2019s a different kind of \u201cfeel good story\u201d for our readers. The money quote, &hellip; <a title=\"A Somewhat Different &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82374\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Somewhat Different &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;<\/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":[11,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-reality-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374","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=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}