{"id":1397,"date":"2007-10-04T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2007-10-04T07:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T12:02:06","slug":"power-to-the-disgusted-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Power To The [Disgusted] People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have one of those days when you&#8217;re crushingly busy, but making headway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and then you run into a task that, at first glance, appeared <em>pro forma<\/em> and easy, but turns out to be a huge undertaking?<\/p>\n<p>I got that same thing looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/coleman\/story\/1460866.html\">Nick Coleman&#8217;s latest <strike>column<\/strike> excrescence<\/a> today.\u00a0 What looked via the headline to be a routine fisk has turned into a monstrosity that will take some concerted effort.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than wuss out and do it later, I&#8217;m going to walk the alternative media walk, and decentralize the job.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to reprise one of my favorite bits, and ask you, gentle reader, to gimme a hand here.<\/p>\n<p>Pick a part of the column &#8211; a paragraph, a passage, a statement &#8211; and fisk it in the comment section.<\/p>\n<p>Show the dead tree media who&#8217;s boss!<\/p>\n<p>You may commence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have one of those days when you&#8217;re crushingly busy, but making headway&#8230; &#8230;and then you run into a task that, at first glance, appeared pro forma and easy, but turns out to be a huge undertaking? I got that same thing looking at Nick Coleman&#8217;s latest column excrescence today.\u00a0 What looked via the headline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}