{"id":196692,"date":"2025-12-07T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196692"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:16:37","slug":"shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196692","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: What makes things affordable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election by saying the word &#8220;affordability&#8221; with talismanic regularity, we have been told that the key to modern politics is that word&#8217;s repetition. Say &#8220;affordability,&#8221; and watch your polls rise&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/what-makes-things-affordable\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable.jpg",1000,749,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable-768x575.jpg",640,479,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable.jpg",640,479,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable.jpg",1000,749,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable.jpg",1000,749,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable.jpg",1000,749,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196692-shapiro-what-makes-things-affordable-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}