{"id":1431,"date":"2012-12-31T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2012-12-31T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:02:49","slug":"heads-i-win-tails-you-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"HEADS, I WIN &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; TAILS, YOU LOSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Heads, I Win &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Tails, You Lose&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody remember being tricked by that line as a kid?<\/p>\n<p>One thing for sure, you didn&#8217;t get fooled twice with that coin toss.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it amazes me that leadership in Washington has fooled half of Americans&#8212;twice&#8212;with logic as silly, and promises as ludicrous as the riddle above.<\/p>\n<p>I may expand on this, but thought I&#8217;d let you reflect and come up with your own applications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Heads, I Win &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Tails, You Lose&#8221; Does anybody remember being tricked by that line as a kid? One thing for sure, you didn&#8217;t get fooled twice with that coin toss. Yet it amazes me that leadership in Washington has fooled half of Americans&#8212;twice&#8212;with logic as silly, and promises as ludicrous as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-fun","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}