{"id":88943,"date":"2012-05-15T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88943\/hey-taxpayer-wanna-talk-gummint-100-please\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:17","slug":"hey-taxpayer-wanna-talk-gummint-100-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88943\/hey-taxpayer-wanna-talk-gummint-100-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Taxpayer! Wanna Talk to the Gummint? That&#8217;ll be $100 please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" title=\"Hank Heasler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/sciencebulletins\/content\/e.f.yellowstone.20060601\/assets\/299\/hank185x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I am sooo frustrated with the National Park Service.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve said before in this blog, I want to make my upcoming Yellowstone Tour d&#8217;Joko something a little more than my ordinary travel video.\u00a0 To that end, I sent a request to Dr Harry Heasler, head geologist at Yellowstone National Park. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Dr Heasler is not allowed to just talk to me on camera. No. He needs permission from their Film Department.\u00a0 So today, I spoke with the head of that department.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of those rare occasions I actually speak with a member of the federal government. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">I tell ya&#8230; It&#8217;s enough to turn me Republican! <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">No, not really. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">The thing is this. The NPS normally would require me to purchase a permit, at a cost of $200 , post an insurance bond and pay for the time of the federal employees I wish to engage in making my video.\u00a0 I am not a real film company.\u00a0 I do not make my videos for any financial gain.\u00a0 I strive to educate and inform, but I am not connected to any educational institution.\u00a0 It would not be fair to ask me to make all this effort for my silly Tour d&#8217;Joko videos&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">To be fair, the head of the video department understood this.\u00a0 She ruled that I would only need to pay $100 to interview Dr Hank Heasler for fifteen minutes, and I would not need to post an insurance bond. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Naturally, I was hoping they would just waive the fee entirely. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Fine. I don&#8217;t need no fancy gummint scientists to make me a special Tour d&#8217;Joko video!\u00a0 Keep your damn experts! I&#8217;ll be my own expert! <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sooo frustrated with the National Park Service.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve said before in this blog, I want to make my upcoming Yellowstone Tour d&#8217;Joko something a little more than my ordinary travel video.\u00a0 To that end, I sent a request to Dr Harry Heasler, head geologist at Yellowstone National Park. Dr Heasler is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}