{"id":7806,"date":"2017-12-28T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T03:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2017-12-28T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T03:54:43","slug":"money-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2017\/12\/28\/money-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Well Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN,  Americans  love buying lottery tickets. They spent more than 80 billion dollars on them in 2016. That&#8217;s more than they spent on movies, video games, music, sports tickets and books &#8212; combined. The budget for NASA in 2016 was about 19 billion dollars.  I get very tired of people who want to complain about how much money is spent on space exploration. Such people are obvious idiots.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, Americans love buying lottery tickets. They spent more than 80 billion dollars on them in 2016. That&#8217;s more than they spent on movies, video games, music, sports tickets and books &#8212; combined. The budget for NASA in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2017\/12\/28\/money-well-spent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}