{"id":2223,"date":"2008-03-06T05:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2008-03-06T05:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:16:44","slug":"noted-in-passing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Noted In Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the pessimism some of us note from the Obama campaign, I love the quote that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downingworld.com\/DW3-08.html#A030108\">DowningWorld noted<\/a>, from the late William F. Buckley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the recently-departed William F. Buckley knew better. He knew that there is no need for despair in America. Here&#8217;s a quote from a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120416124445498389.html\" target=\"_blank\">collection<\/a> published by the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Despair is inappropriate for a culture as buoyant as our own.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, <em>one <\/em>American party vaguely remembers this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the pessimism some of us note from the Obama campaign, I love the quote that DowningWorld noted, from the late William F. Buckley: But the recently-departed William F. Buckley knew better. He knew that there is no need for despair in America. Here&#8217;s a quote from a collection published by the Wall Street Journal: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}