{"id":974,"date":"2005-11-28T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/they_just_dont_\/"},"modified":"2005-11-28T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T13:18:08","slug":"they_just_dont_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/they_just_dont_\/","title":{"rendered":"They Just Don&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The premise of this story <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB113314261192407815.html?mod=home whats news us\">Freakonomics<\/a> is about seven years old, but the moral remains the same.&nbsp; As a clear leader, I will never waiver in my belief that all human beings are made for a great purpose.&nbsp; Mr. Levitt (the University of Chicago ecconomist in the WSJ article), sadly, misses this reality.&nbsp; The idea (abortion reduces crime by keeping unwanted children from being born) is based on pure statistics and nothing more.&nbsp; You know what they say about statistics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, you were born for a purpose.&nbsp; I for one am glad you were born, because I know there is something in you that will change the world&#8230;for the better.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Mr. Levitt will understand this one day.&nbsp; Life is bigger than statistics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise of this story Freakonomics is about seven years old, but the moral remains the same.&nbsp; As a clear leader, I will never waiver in my belief that all human beings are made for a great purpose.&nbsp; Mr. Levitt (the University of Chicago ecconomist in the WSJ article), sadly, misses this reality.&nbsp; The idea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}