{"id":525769,"date":"2010-04-13T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.economist.com,21006001"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:20:57","slug":"arguments-that-make-themelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525769","title":{"rendered":"Arguments that make themelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DON BLANKENSHIP, the sorry excuse for a CEO of Massey Energy whose brushing aside of repeated safety warnings at a West Virginia mine led to a disastrous explosion which killed at least 29 miners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/don-blankenship-right\">continues to function<\/a> as a living, breathing exemplar of the need for sound regulation of dangerous industries:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As someone who has overseen the mining of more coal than anyone else in   the history of central Appalachia, I know that the safety and health of   coal miners is my most important job. I don\u2019t need Washington   politicians to tell me that, and neither do you. But I also know \u2014 I   also know Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve   miner safety. The very idea that they care more about coal miner safety   than we do is as silly as global warming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DON BLANKENSHIP, the sorry excuse for a CEO of Massey Energy whose brushing aside of repeated safety warnings at a West Virginia mine led to a disastrous explosion which killed at least 29 miners, continues to function as a living, breathing exemplar of the need for sound regulation of dangerous industries: As someone who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}