{"id":178,"date":"2016-01-31T07:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/31\/martin-shkreli-on-drug-price-hikes-and-playing-the\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:08","slug":"martin-shkreli-on-drug-price-hikes-and-playing-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/01\/31\/martin-shkreli-on-drug-price-hikes-and-playing-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PCb9mnrU1g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>Martin Shkreli on Drug Price Hikes and Playing the World\u2019s Villain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019ve been skeptical of his villainy because of its quick and unanimous acceptance by the media, and because the evil in question is baked into the system that he is a part of. It is more likely that he is a decoy for the real\/greater evil. <\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Shkreli on Drug Price Hikes and Playing the World\u2019s Villain I\u2019ve been skeptical of his villainy because of its quick and unanimous acceptance by the media, and because the evil in question is baked into the system that he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/01\/31\/martin-shkreli-on-drug-price-hikes-and-playing-the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1340,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/23\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":0},"title":"Slavery: A 21st Century Evil &#8211; Al Jazeera English","author":"aslam","date":"November 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesToday, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. 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