{"id":33142,"date":"2011-05-26T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33142"},"modified":"2011-05-26T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:26:25","slug":"the-culture-of-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33142","title":{"rendered":"The Culture Of Dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;There is nothing in life more easily adapted to than being given things for free. And when they are taken away, not only are you angry, you feel like a human right has been deprived. I have a right to that money. The first time people get something for free, they feel lucky. From the second time on, they feel entitled. It makes a worse human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are middle-aged or older, isn&#8217;t one of your nightmares that you will be dependent on others? That you would have to be taken care of by others? Then why isn&#8217;t it a nightmare to be taken care of by the state? It&#8217;s OK because the state is anonymous? I don&#8217;t want to be taken care of by people who know me but I do want to be taken care of by people who don&#8217;t know me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;There is nothing in life more easily adapted to than being given things for free. And when they are taken away, not only are you angry, you feel like a human right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29761,25302,26556,1453,2642],"class_list":["post-33142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-dennis-prager","tag-middle-aged","tag-nightmares","tag-radio-show","tag-second-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33146,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33142\/revisions\/33146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}