{"id":13797,"date":"2010-09-24T07:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2010-09-24T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:09:45","slug":"trying-to-keep-this-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13797","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Keep This In Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined a good chunk of the blogosphere in reviling Michelle Obama for saying she wasn&#8217;t proud of being an American until her husband became a contender. \u00a0It was a dumb remark.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; hearing that the Democrats are going to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/09\/24\/stephen-colbert-to-testify-in-washington-today\/\">do this<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comedy Central humorist Stephen Colbert is set to testify before a House subcommittee on immigration at 9:30 a.m. today. Yes, you heard that right. Colbert is scheduled to appear alongside United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez, whose group initiated a campaign called \u201cTake Our Jobs\u201d that challenged U.S. citizens to replace immigrants in farm work. On last night\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Colbert Report,\u201d Colbert took the challenge, packing corn and picking beans to see if he could handle farm labor. As it turns out, he really can\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and I gotta confess, they might wanna close the Statue of Liberty, because it&#8217;s gonna fall over.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, look for the Cookie Monster to talk about childhood obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined a good chunk of the blogosphere in reviling Michelle Obama for saying she wasn&#8217;t proud of being an American until her husband became a contender. \u00a0It was a dumb remark. Still &#8211; hearing that the Democrats are going to do this&#8230;: Comedy Central humorist Stephen Colbert is set to testify before a House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797","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=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}