{"id":2763,"date":"2008-06-25T05:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2008-08-04T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:56:34","slug":"correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2763","title":{"rendered":"Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer in the <em>Minnesoros <strike>Monitor <\/strike>&#8220;Independent&#8221; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/rnc-diy-the\">gets it wrong<\/a>, I suspect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the political theater of national nominating conventions, one aspect tends to get left out: the political theater of regular citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a hunch that the &#8220;political theater&#8221; of &#8220;regular citizens&#8221; who just love love love to post their opinions &#8211; no matter how obtuse, deranged or deluded &#8211; will not be getting &#8220;left out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a friend of mine closely connected to the organizing committee tells me that they estimate there&#8217;ll be at least one left-leaning &#8220;citizens video journalism&#8221; group for every individual delegate, should they choose to divide their &#8220;labor&#8221; that way.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors that the Twin Cities has implemented a program to train the homeless and recent parolees to work as barristas and clerks at &#8220;Hot Topic&#8221; are at present unconfirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer in the Minnesoros Monitor &#8220;Independent&#8221; gets it wrong, I suspect: In the political theater of national nominating conventions, one aspect tends to get left out: the political theater of regular citizens. I have a hunch that the &#8220;political theater&#8221; of &#8220;regular citizens&#8221; who just love love love to post their opinions &#8211; no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}