{"id":1753,"date":"2010-04-04T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2010-04-04T06:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T06:11:39","slug":"i_wonder_when_we_will_all_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder When We Will All Say &#8220;TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/03\/reason-the-war-on-cocktails\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, Ed Morrissey posted an article about too much state (or city)&nbsp;government.&nbsp; It seems as if we are surrounded by government entities that want to tell us how to live.&nbsp; The example in the article was frothy cocktails, considered dangerous by&nbsp;several states.&nbsp; Yes, you read that right.&nbsp; On January 19, 2010, a New York cocktail hot spot had to take the &#8216;Earl Grey MarTEAni&#8217; off the menu because it included raw egg white.&nbsp; (Just to clear this up, a comment at Hot Air from a chef explained that the acid in the&nbsp;citrus in a cocktail containing raw egg white will neutralize any bacteria.)&nbsp; The cocktail menu explained that the drink had raw egg white, the &#8216;standard raw egg white warning&#8217; was also in the menu, and the cocktail was prepared in front of the patron.&nbsp; The health department complained that the patron was not also told verbally.<\/p>\n<p>The health department eventually backed off (after threatening&nbsp;court action and other serious penalties), and the cocktail is again on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, even though I don&#8217;t drink I am offended by this kind of silliness on the part of state or local government.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t they have anything better to do?&nbsp; How many people are paid to go into bars and see what is in the drinks and if they are explained to the patrons verbally?&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey posted an article about too much state (or city)&nbsp;government.&nbsp; It seems as if we are surrounded by government entities that want to tell us how to live.&nbsp; The example in the article was frothy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}