{"id":4688,"date":"2022-01-23T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2022-01-23T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:26:12","slug":"our-government-is-showing-its-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/our-government-is-showing-its-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Our government is showing its age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"108\" data-attachment-id=\"4689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/our-government-is-showing-its-age\/real-clear-politics\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" data-orig-size=\"495,108\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Real-Clear-Politics\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics-300x65.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png 495w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics-300x65.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1803 the British posted sentries on the cliffs of Dover to watch out for an invasion by Napoleon. Until 1945, 134 years after Napoleon\u2019s death, the guards were still on the job. This episode is an extreme elaboration of one of C. Northcote Parkinson\u2019s famous laws: Action expands to fill the void created by human failure. It is worth considering today when our democratic system of government is struggling&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/01\/23\/our_government_is_showing_its_age_147071.html\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1803 the British posted sentries on the cliffs of Dover to watch out for an invasion by Napoleon. Until 1945, 134 years after Napoleon\u2019s death, the guards were still on the job. This episode is an extreme elaboration of one of C. Northcote Parkinson\u2019s famous laws: Action expands to fill the void created by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-real-clear-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}