{"id":3484,"date":"2012-06-30T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2012-06-30T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:23:39","slug":"heed-the-words-of-bandit-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/heed-the-words-of-bandit-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed the words of Bandit Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So every four years we elect a king. Since people like consistency, we tend to elect the same king as many times as we can get away with. (See previous paragraph.) And the king, especially in any sort of emergency, has a lot of power. They don\u2019t always, or even most of the time, have enough to fix things right away. But they\u2019ve got a lot of power.<br \/>\nIncluding the power to totally screw things up.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nFor the kids reading this, this is a very important point. When you choose your king, forget most of the reasons you think you should vote for the king. Mostly, the king can\u2019t do much about the economy but ruin it. They can\u2019t make you richer or smarter (although they can manage the reverse). If you want one suggestion, think about all the contingencies under which that king (or queen in this case) may hold your lives in his or her hands. And choose wisely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1439132917\/eclipsswebwarren\">Bandit Six<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So every four years we elect a king. Since people like consistency, we tend to elect the same king as many times as we can get away with. (See previous paragraph.) And the king, especially in any sort of emergency, has a lot of power. They don\u2019t always, or even most of the time, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,19,24],"tags":[136,139,448,527,621,638,696,697],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-politics","category-science-fiction","tag-baen","tag-bandit-six","tag-john-ringo","tag-military-science-fiction","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Uc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}