{"id":534,"date":"2008-09-16T06:29:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-09-16T06:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T20:29:31","slug":"shock-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Shock therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/national\/dole-bludgers-need-prod-nats-senator-20080915-4h0f.html\">Dole bludgers need prod: Nats senator<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A Nationals senator nicknamed &#8220;Wacca&#8221; has used his first speech to tell dole bludgers that they should be poked with a cattle prod to get them off their butts and into the workforce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mere suggestion of violence against benefit recipients adds to the climate of hatred of the poor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll agree to cattle prodding dole recipients if we can Taser stupid politicians until they have some commonsense.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dole bludgers need prod: Nats senator A Nationals senator nicknamed &#8220;Wacca&#8221; has used his first speech to tell dole bludgers that they should be poked with a cattle prod to get them off their butts and into the workforce. The mere suggestion of violence against benefit recipients adds to the climate of hatred of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}