{"id":691,"date":"2012-04-27T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:10:53","slug":"bulletin-we-beat-the-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/bulletin-we-beat-the-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLETIN:  We beat the bureaucrats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a powerful demonstration of the new so-called &#8220;social media&#8221; at work.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen such a push back as the ag community staged against the proposed Obama rule that would have prevented kids from doing chores around the farm.\u00a0 We reported on the proposal (see below: <em>I&#8217;m from the government<\/em>&#8230;) as did every other blog I read and apparently Washington was buried in an avalanche of protests.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor department has pulled back its plan and&#8212;more importantly&#8212;has even\u00a0guaranteed it will not be resurrected during this Administration.\u00a0 The bureaucrats have a way of getting whatever they want on most issues by coming back until the opposition is finally worn down&#8230;or looking the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a story about <em>the good guys<\/em> winning one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/04\/26\/amid-nationwide-outcry-labor-dept-withdraws-farm-child-labor-rule\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/04\/26\/amid-nationwide-outcry-labor-dept-withdraws-farm-child-labor-rule\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a powerful demonstration of the new so-called &#8220;social media&#8221; at work.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen such a push back as the ag community staged against the proposed Obama rule that would have prevented kids from doing chores around the farm.\u00a0 We reported on the proposal (see below: I&#8217;m from the government&#8230;) as did every other blog I read and apparently Washington was buried in an avalanche of protests. The Labor department has pulled back its plan and&#8212;more importantly&#8212;has even\u00a0guaranteed it will not be resurrected during this Administration.\u00a0 The bureaucrats have a way of getting whatever they want on most issues by coming back until the opposition is finally worn down&#8230;or looking the other way. Here&#8217;s a link to a story about the good guys winning one: http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/04\/26\/amid-nationwide-outcry-labor-dept-withdraws-farm-child-labor-rule\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-government","category-on-the-soap-box"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}