{"id":5415,"date":"2021-06-20T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2021-06-20T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:30:06","slug":"great-moments-in-unintended-consequences-vol-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5415","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Year: 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Problem: Nude dancing is degrading to women and ruining the moral fabric of Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Solution:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/nn9kdq\/the-messed-up-story-behind-albertas-sad-tradition-of-throwing-loonies-at-strippers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Establish a one-meter buffer zone between patrons and dancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds like total buzzkill! With puritanical intentions. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that dancers earn most of their money in the form of tips, and dollar bills don&#8217;t fly through the air very well. Thus, the measure designed to protect dancers from degrading treatment resulted in &#8220;the loonie toss&#8221;\u2014a creepy ritual where naked women are pelted with Canadian one-dollar coins, which are known as loonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Way to make the ladies feel special, Alberta.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TofWilhhFu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/2021\/05\/07\/great-moments-in-unintended-consequences-vol-3\/\">Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Window Tax, Canadian Strip Clubs, Hero Pay (Vol. 3)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Window Tax, Canadian Strip Clubs, Hero Pay (Vol. 3)&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/2021\/05\/07\/great-moments-in-unintended-consequences-vol-3\/embed\/#?secret=vo4JMKJkng#?secret=TofWilhhFu\" data-secret=\"TofWilhhFu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Year: 1992<br \/>\nThe Problem: Nude dancing is degrading to women and ruining the moral fabric of Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Solution: Establish a one-meter buffer zone between patrons and dancers.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like total buzzkill! With puritanical intentions. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that dancers earn most of their money in the form of tips, and dollar bills don&#8217;t fly through the air very well. Thus, the measure designed to protect dancers from degrading treatment resulted in &#8220;the loonie toss&#8221;\u2014a creepy ritual where naked women are pelted with Canadian one-dollar coins, which are known as loonies.<\/p>\n<p>Way to make the ladies feel special, Alberta.&#8221;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[293,411,1260,950],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-canada","tag-policy","tag-sex-work","tag-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}