{"id":1888,"date":"2008-03-03T01:52:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T06:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2008-03-03T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:57:10","slug":"place-your-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Place Your Bets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting to be that time of  year &#8211; time for the City Pages&#8217; &#8220;Best Blogs&#8221; competition!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ve followed this tradition, you know it&#8217;s actually two awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEST LOCALLY GENERATED BLOG (LEFT-WING):  Previous winners, MNVolved and Clucking Spoo &#8211; leftyblogs that laid a thin veneer of humor (MNVolved) or gimmick (the Stool) over strident, constant, headbanging left-leaning politics.<\/li>\n<li>BEST LOCALLY GENERATED BLOG (RIGHT-WING): Previous winners, Nihilist in Golf Pants and Faithmouse &#8211; right-leaning blogs that don&#8217;t write about politics all that very much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the handicapper&#8217;s game is to figure out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which leftyblog puts the &#8220;hippest&#8221; gimmick (or, given that &#8220;pseudo-hip&#8221; is the new &#8220;hip&#8221;, perhaps one of those instead) on top of the most strident left-leaning point of view, and<\/li>\n<li>which right-leaning blog puts the thinnest possible veneer of rightward tilt over the least-political content possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So let&#8217;s take some nominations!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start out with my own choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bogus Gold:  Doug Williams&#8217; tomato-and-wineblogging doesn&#8217;t beat you over the head with politics, lately (although to be sure he&#8217;s one of the good guys); also, BoGo went un-updated due to Williams&#8217; extended blogging sabbatical last year, which would probably make it <em>City Pages&#8217;<\/em> ideal conservative blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/myoperalife.blogspot.com\/\">My Opera Life<\/a>:  This blog is all about life as an opera student, and touches not in the least on politics, other than being married to a conservative blogger (which may be mentioned once or twice in the past year and a half).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pianomomsicle.blogspot.com\/\">Pianomomsicle<\/a>:  Jessica Gensmer writes about cooking, raising her baby, married life and faith.  The closest thing to conservative political statement anywhere on the blog is a link to, as it happens, Shot In The Dark.  Which might be too much for the City Pages&#8217; staff, and thereby makes her a dark horse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take your nominations in the comment section, and have a runoff election later this week, followed by the grand finale early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we&#8217;ll wait to see how close it gets to the CP&#8217;s picks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all tingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting to be that time of year &#8211; time for the City Pages&#8217; &#8220;Best Blogs&#8221; competition! Now, if you&#8217;ve followed this tradition, you know it&#8217;s actually two awards: BEST LOCALLY GENERATED BLOG (LEFT-WING): Previous winners, MNVolved and Clucking Spoo &#8211; leftyblogs that laid a thin veneer of humor (MNVolved) or gimmick (the Stool) over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","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=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}