{"id":4509,"date":"2012-08-27T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2012-09-30T23:15:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:15:28","slug":"critical-thinking-viewpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"Critical Thinking: Viewpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000099\"><strong>A few days ago I happened to catch on Talking<br \/>\nPoint (tv prog), a very interesting and informative talk on the topic &quot;How to<br \/>\nraise the fertility rate in S&#8217;pore&quot;. One of the viewers who called in suggested<br \/>\nthat a young married couple be allowed to jump queue and be allotted a flat on<br \/>\ncondition they produce a baby within a year. Immediately the two hosts and the<br \/>\npanel of speakers laughed at the amusing suggestion, with a grinning host<br \/>\n saying  in general &quot;what happens if there&#8217;s no baby after a year&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000099\"><strong>I thought this kind of engagement is good for<br \/>\ncritical thinking and decided to start this post to provide an opportunity for<br \/>\ninterested members to write and share their views, thoughts, ideas&#8230;etc to<br \/>\nquestions\/statements posed on this post. I think Silverhair can contribute to<br \/>\nchallenges facing our&nbsp; nation.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000099\"><strong>However. i must add that comments CRITICIZING<br \/>\nother people&#8217;s opinions are NOT WELCOME. <font color=\"#ff0000\">This post does<br \/>\nnot support superior\/judgmental attitude. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000099\"><strong>To get the ball rolling, here is the first<br \/>\nposer: What can be done to increase the fertility rate in<br \/>\nS&#8217;pore?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#990000\">Do you think adult children should give their<br \/>\nparents a monthly allowance?<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#990000\">Are you comfortable with the idea of today&#8217;s<br \/>\nyouth asking the rich for expensive things?<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000099\"><strong> Put on your thinking cap and cepat tulis\/<br \/>\n<font>???????&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emoticon\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/Wysi-Wordpress\/plugins\/emotions\/images\/happy.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000099\"><strong><font \/><\/strong><\/font><font><\/font><font><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I happened to catch on Talking Point (tv prog), a very interesting and informative talk on the topic &quot;How to raise the fertility rate in S&#8217;pore&quot;. One of the viewers who called in suggested that a young married couple be allowed to jump queue and be allotted a flat on condition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critical Thinking: Viewpoints&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}