{"id":6137,"date":"2020-01-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2020-01-17T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:03:20","slug":"100-years-later-and-prohibitionists-still-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/100-years-later-and-prohibitionists-still-dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"100 YEARS LATER, AND PROHIBITIONISTS STILL DON\u2019T GET IT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout the year, we\u2019ll be reminded that it\u2019s the centennial anniversary of the great failed social experiment called Prohibition.\u00a0 The <em>Chicago Tribune, <\/em>which is a longtime editorial supporter of \u201cgun control,\u201d recently published <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this editorial (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/ct-editorial-prohibition-anniversary-20200116-r5nbz3jsfre3dj4n3nat6auyaa-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this editorial<\/a> defending their opposition to Prohibition a century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, every single argument they made then and support\nnow, against Prohibition, is an argument against \u201cgun control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hypocrisy is stunning.&nbsp;\nBut, then, hypocrisy has long been a cardinal feature of the gun\nprohibition movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the year, we\u2019ll be reminded that it\u2019s the centennial anniversary of the great failed social experiment called Prohibition.\u00a0 The Chicago Tribune, which is a longtime editorial supporter of \u201cgun control,\u201d recently published this editorial defending their opposition to Prohibition a century ago. Ironically, every single argument they made then and support now, against Prohibition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}