{"id":2624,"date":"2008-05-29T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2008-05-29T05:05:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:05:37","slug":"is-it-lileks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"Is It Lileks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or is it a fiendish parody?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Things started well enough: My tires sang on iceless roads, and the flooding sunlight raised a dew of sweat on my forehead. I turned off the heater, and in a fit of wild abandon brought down the driver&#8217;s-side window. The wind slapped and stung, my knuckles whitened on the wheel, but I pressed on. Spring! Shivering means you&#8217;re alive!<\/p>\n<p>Then Mother Nature swept in, slapped her palm with a nightstick, and barked, <em>Show&#8217;s over, pal<\/em>. Clouds consumed the sun and soon the familiar aerial bombardment of sleet played Penderecki on my windshield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doy &#8211; take <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.citypages.com\/2008-05-28\/news\/james-lileks-ode-to-summer\/\">parody<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; and not a bad one, although it loses a little steam near the end.<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;ve given up all pretense of doing news, it&#8217;s probably not a bad next step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or is it a fiendish parody? Things started well enough: My tires sang on iceless roads, and the flooding sunlight raised a dew of sweat on my forehead. I turned off the heater, and in a fit of wild abandon brought down the driver&#8217;s-side window. The wind slapped and stung, my knuckles whitened on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}