Today is Shot In The Dark’s ninth birthday.<\/p>\n
I was working at a dying little dotcom nine years ago. \u00a0I was reading a Time <\/em>article on the “new breed of young conservative intellectuals”. \u00a0They profiled Andrew Sullivan and his “blog”. \u00a0I checked it out. \u00a0I saw the link to Blogger.com.<\/p>\n And when I got home, after dinner, I set the thing up, and it was off to the races.<\/p>\n And the race has not stopped for more than a weekend since then (barring a one-week break when my ISP died back in 2004).<\/p>\n Anyway – thanks!<\/p>\n More next year, God willing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is Shot In The Dark’s ninth birthday. I was working at a dying little dotcom nine years ago. \u00a0I was reading a Time article on the “new breed of young conservative intellectuals”. \u00a0They profiled Andrew Sullivan and his “blog”. \u00a0I checked it out. \u00a0I saw the link to Blogger.com. And when I got home, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892","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=17892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions\/17894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}