{"id":1467,"date":"2007-10-18T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2007-10-18T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T17:24:50","slug":"undies-status-smooth-as-billie-holidays-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Undies Status:  Smooth As Billie Holiday&#8217;s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they teach (I&#8217;m told) in law school: &#8220;When the law is against you, argue facts.\u00a0 When the facts are against you, argue law.\u00a0 When both are against you, argue like hell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The blogging corollary might be &#8220;when the facts make you look like an idiot and your every attempt at a response looks like a more-and-more desperate attempt to change the subject because the entire world is starting to think you&#8217;re a giggly self-absorbed little jagoff, you should quit before you get too far behind, if it&#8217;s not already too late&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which, with Foot on the case, <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/does-blogger-avidor-support.html\">it pretty much already<\/a> is.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Closed Circuit to Learned Foot:\u00a0 &#8220;Facts&#8221; don&#8217;t matter to these people.\u00a0 A year or so ago, Avodart claimed that <em>I <\/em>support PRT, too &#8211; after not bothering to notice the easily-google-able fact that I, in fact, oppose it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be his general-purpose imprecation, not unlike saying his dad can beat your dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they teach (I&#8217;m told) in law school: &#8220;When the law is against you, argue facts.\u00a0 When the facts are against you, argue law.\u00a0 When both are against you, argue like hell&#8221;. The blogging corollary might be &#8220;when the facts make you look like an idiot and your every attempt at a response looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}