{"id":181,"date":"2010-09-02T07:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-08-27T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T03:54:36","slug":"will-rogers-political-quote-government-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/will-rogers-political-quote-government-aid\/181","title":{"rendered":"Will Rogers on Government Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-182 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0993.jpg\" alt=\"Will Rogers\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0993.jpg 320w, https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0993-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>The image shows Will Rogers doing one his trademark rope tricks &#8211; the big crinoline. Rogers plays out the lasso into a huge loop, not only encircling his horse, but the entire baseball team as well.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe quote: &#8220;Things in our country run in spite of government. Not by the aid of it.&#8221; still rings true today. In many cases the unintended consequences of legislation make the problem worse, not better.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I hope you have enjoyed this quote from Will Rogers and the accompanying image taken from the\u00a0<a title=\"Will Rogers Daily Quotes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/will-rogers-daily-quotes\/id381332965?mt=8&amp;uo=6&amp;at=10laLs&amp;ct=iosProducts\" target=\"_blank\">Will Rogers<\/a> iPhone app. Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fbraswell\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Systems-of-Merritt-Inc\/139423869429884?created\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page regularly and pass these posts on to friends that might enjoy a bit of wisdom from Will Rogers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/will-rogers-daily-quotes\/id381332965?mt=8&amp;uo=6&amp;at=10laLs&amp;ct=iosProducts\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7006 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/badge_appstore-lrg.gif\" alt=\"Will Rogers\" width=\"116\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image shows Will Rogers doing one his trademark rope tricks &#8211; the big crinoline. Rogers plays out the lasso into a huge loop, not only encircling his horse, but the entire baseball team as well. The quote: &#8220;Things in our country run in spite of government. Not by the aid of it.&#8221; still rings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/will-rogers-political-quote-government-aid\/181\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[284,45,15,130,14,157,21],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will-rogers-daily-quote-for-iphone","tag-aid","tag-government","tag-iphone-app","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-tcot","tag-will-rogers","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}