{"id":23136,"date":"2011-09-26T05:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T10:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23136"},"modified":"2011-09-25T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T02:56:53","slug":"flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23136","title":{"rendered":"Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did political labels flip, and I didn\u2019t notice it?<\/p>\n<p>When I was a lad in school, \u201cLiberal\u201d meant \u201cfavored change\u201d which was good, whereas \u201cConservative\u201d meant \u201copposed change\u201d which was bad.<\/p>\n<p>But everywhere we look today, Conservatives are the ones desiring change, rolling back government\u2019s over-reaching, while Liberals are opposing change.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only rhetorically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes: Did political labels flip, and I didn\u2019t notice it? When I was a lad in school, \u201cLiberal\u201d meant \u201cfavored change\u201d which was good, whereas \u201cConservative\u201d meant \u201copposed change\u201d which was bad. But everywhere we look today, Conservatives are the ones desiring change, rolling back government\u2019s over-reaching, while Liberals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136","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=23136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23137,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}