{"id":23889,"date":"2020-12-18T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/americans-arent-citizens-theyre-shoppers#id28673"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:53:00","slug":"americans-arent-citizens-theyre-shoppers-smart-government-should-appeal-to-their-consumerist-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/americans-arent-citizens-theyre-shoppers-smart-government-should-appeal-to-their-consumerist-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans aren\u2019t citizens, they\u2019re shoppers. Smart government should appeal to their consumerist behavior."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a disjunction between what government is and the expectations people have from their experiences as consumers. And that disjunction helps explain some of the more interesting puzzles in American political life.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22150375\/america-consumerism-shopping-ethan-porter-the-consumer-citizen\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Vox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/americans-arent-citizens-theyre-shoppers\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        There&rsquo;s a disjunction between what government is and the expectations people have from their experiences as consumers. And that disjunction helps explain some of the more interesting puzzles in American political li&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23890,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23889\/revisions\/23890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}