{"id":2204,"date":"2013-07-12T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:42:58","slug":"information-does-not-produce-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"INFORMATION DOES NOT PRODUCE ENERGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information does not produce energy&#8212;OIL DOES.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity does not save energy&#8212;IT JUST TRANSPORTS IT.<\/p>\n<p>Technology does not do work&#8212;PEOPLE AND MACHINES DO.<\/p>\n<p>Tax dollars do not stimulate the economy&#8212;FREE ENTERPRISE DOES.<\/p>\n<p>Talking did not win the American Revolution&#8212;GUNS DID (all sizes).<\/p>\n<p>Democratic process did not stop Hitler&#8212;WILLPOWER and SACRIFICE DID.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiation did not win the cold war&#8212;CONFIDENCE with AUTHORITY and POWER DID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dealing&#8221; with dictators never wins&#8212;DEFEATING THEM DOES.<\/p>\n<p>Military does not make us strong&#8212;MORALITY DOES.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information does not produce energy&#8212;OIL DOES. Electricity does not save energy&#8212;IT JUST TRANSPORTS IT. Technology does not do work&#8212;PEOPLE AND MACHINES DO. Tax dollars do not stimulate the economy&#8212;FREE ENTERPRISE DOES. Talking did not win the American Revolution&#8212;GUNS DID (all sizes). Democratic process did not stop Hitler&#8212;WILLPOWER and SACRIFICE DID. Negotiation did not win 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":[12,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}