{"id":20365,"date":"2011-10-28T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/vote-no-on-initiative-1183-letter\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:45:40","slug":"vote-no-on-initiative-1183-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/vote-no-on-initiative-1183-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote no on Initiative 1183 | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Why do we need to get the state out of the liquor business? Why does Costco need to get into the business (other than profit)?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Whether this is increasing the number of liquor outlets or simply redistributing the licensing, why is this something that needs to be done?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It\u2019s like selling white elephant repellent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Apparently, I\u2019m not supposed to be asking or expecting the answers to these questions.\u00a0 Or expecting answers from an unbiased source from either side of the issue. I should just flip the (thinking) off switch and vote yes. I don\u2019t need white elephant repellent and I fail to see what is lost or gained by changing things. I see a yes vote as a vote of ignorance. Costco, you need revenue? Go fish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Mike Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Kent<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we need to get the state out of the liquor business? Why does Costco need to get into the business (other than profit)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}