{"id":23009,"date":"2011-09-19T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23009"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:14:08","slug":"pointcounterpoint-rumors-of-its-demise-are-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23009","title":{"rendered":"Point\/Counterpoint: Rumors Of Its Demise Are Exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who say that political blogging is dead &#8211; replaced by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>To explore the issue, I present a Point\/Counterpoint debate between myself and my evil twin brother Jed.<\/p>\n<p>MITCH: \u00a0Is political blogging dead? \u00a0Who cares? \u00a0As long as I enjoy doing it, it&#8217;s alive!<\/p>\n<p>JED:\u00a0Solipsistic\u00a0as always, Mitch. \u00a0The larger point is this; if all\u00a0political communication is going to have to squeeze down to 140 characters (less links), then completing the de-evolution to Duckspeak is really just a formality.<\/p>\n<p>The winner: \u00a0Both of us!<\/p>\n<div>That is all.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who say that political blogging is dead &#8211; replaced by Twitter. To explore the issue, I present a Point\/Counterpoint debate between myself and my evil twin brother Jed. MITCH: \u00a0Is political blogging dead? \u00a0Who cares? \u00a0As long as I enjoy doing it, it&#8217;s alive! JED:\u00a0Solipsistic\u00a0as always, Mitch. \u00a0The larger point is this; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,43],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-23009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mitch","category-mitchs-evil-twin-jed","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009","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=23009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38779,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions\/38779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}