{"id":17728,"date":"2011-01-28T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17728"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T23:09:59","slug":"rocket-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17728","title":{"rendered":"Rocket To Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Miller &#8211; late of the great, lamented <em>Truth Vs. The Machine<\/em>, from which this blog&#8217;s &#8220;First Ringer&#8221; is a refugee, has switched hos <em>oeuvre <\/em>to Facebook, a medium whose Ambrose Bierce he very clearly is.<\/p>\n<p>And Gary notes something that had flashed across my mind as I listened to the State of The Union:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the President&#8217;s continued references to Sputnik as a way to inspire young people would be much more effective, if: 1. They still taught kids in publik skouls about Sputnik. 2. The country which launched Sputnik, the Soviet Union, still existed and hadn&#8217;t collapsed under the burden of a socialist command economy similar to one which the President hopes to implement here. Other than that, heck of a story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Miller &#8211; late of the great, lamented Truth Vs. The Machine, from which this blog&#8217;s &#8220;First Ringer&#8221; is a refugee, has switched hos oeuvre to Facebook, a medium whose Ambrose Bierce he very clearly is. And Gary notes something that had flashed across my mind as I listened to the State of The Union: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-president-obama","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728","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=17728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17732,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17728\/revisions\/17732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}