{"id":12388,"date":"2010-08-02T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2010-08-02T07:21:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:21:40","slug":"bow-and-scrape-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12388","title":{"rendered":"Bow And Scrape, Peasants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Vennochi in the <em>Boston Glob: <\/em>The Dems are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2010\/08\/01\/the_yacht_vs_the_pickup_truck\/\">now the party of patrician privilege<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From Newport, R.I., where Kerry\u2019s \u201cIsabel\u2019\u2019 was berthed before heading to Nantucket, to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton was married in a mansion modeled after Versailles, today\u2019s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>Kick in the First Family\u2019s vacation plans for Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and there\u2019s a real air of Marie Antoinette &amp; Co. retreating to idyllic gardens, while Fox News whips up revolutionary flames. The ethics charges against Representative Charles Rangel of New York are added foie gras.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course we see that in Minnesota politics as well; while the left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2010\/07\/real-america-tom-emmer-minnesotas-last-sovereign-individual\">sniffs down its aquiline nose<\/a> at Tom Emmer&#8217;s bourgeois upbringing and suburban base, Mark Dayton is hard at work buying another election to put next to the others in his collection &#8211; with scarcely a word from the local media (which is too busy carping about the &#8220;corruption of money in politics&#8221;, apparently, to bother).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Vennochi in the Boston Glob: The Dems are\u00a0now the party of patrician privilege: From Newport, R.I., where Kerry\u2019s \u201cIsabel\u2019\u2019 was berthed before heading to Nantucket, to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton was married in a mansion modeled after Versailles, today\u2019s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O\u2019Neill. Kick in the First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12391,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}