{"id":2470,"date":"2006-07-02T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2006-07-02T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T16:14:00","slug":"welfare-rice-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/07\/02\/12\/14\/welfare-rice-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare Rice Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/01\/AR2006070100962.html\">Nationwide, the [US] government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all &#8230; In 2005 alone, when pretax farm profits were at a near-record $72 billion, the federal government handed out more than $25 billion in aid, almost 50 percent more than the amount it pays to families receiving welfare.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, the [US] government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all &#8230; In 2005 alone, when pretax farm&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}