{"id":31602,"date":"2012-11-05T07:17:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31602"},"modified":"2012-11-05T07:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:17:47","slug":"a-good-omen-for-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31602","title":{"rendered":"A Good Omen For Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5529\">I pointed out a couple years ago<\/a>, American democracy does have one fairly reliable bellwether:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRInCIgNAZpoSPeKM7piB2I28M9MQMECIxGko8dZD_JZhuz0LKMnYkcfw\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fortunes of the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>And who is leading the NFC North today?<\/p>\n<p>The Bears.<\/p>\n<p>And who snuffed out Tennessee 51-20 yesterday?<\/p>\n<p>Yep. \u00a0The Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Look, say what you will &#8211; but history doesn&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I pointed out a couple years ago, American democracy does have one fairly reliable bellwether: The fortunes of the Chicago Bears. And who is leading the NFC North today? The Bears. And who snuffed out Tennessee 51-20 yesterday? Yep. \u00a0The Bears. Look, say what you will &#8211; but history doesn&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602","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=31602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31603,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions\/31603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}