{"id":1572,"date":"2009-07-16T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-07-16T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:30:40","slug":"practical-definition-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/practical-definition-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical definition:  Government oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is fond of setting up oversight committees, and demanding that various agencies provide oversight to much of our economy.\u00a0 They are clearly contemplating definition 1 from <a href=\"http:\/\/mw1.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/oversight\">Webster&#8217;s<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"sense_label start\">1 a<\/span><span class=\"sense_content\"><strong>:<\/strong> watchful and responsible care<\/span> <span class=\"sense_label\">b<\/span><span class=\"sense_content\"><strong>:<\/strong> regulatory supervision <span class=\"vi\">&lt;congressional <em>oversight<\/em>&gt;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"sense_content\"><span class=\"vi\">When one sees the actual, as opposed to the theoretical workings of our governments, state and local, it&#8217;s impossible not consider definition 2 as more appropriate:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"sense_label start\">2<\/span><span class=\"sense_content\"><strong>:<\/strong> an inadvertent omission or error<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"sense_content\">As the inestimable <a href=\"http:\/\/nycivicblog.blogspot.com\/\">Henry Stern points out<\/a>, oversight is one of the few words in the English language that also means its own opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is fond of setting up oversight committees, and demanding that various agencies provide oversight to much of our economy.\u00a0 They are clearly contemplating definition 1 from Webster&#8217;s: 1 a: watchful and responsible care b: regulatory supervision &lt;congressional oversight&gt; When one sees the actual, as opposed to the theoretical workings of our governments, state and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}