{"id":3323,"date":"2008-09-18T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2008-09-18T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:18:10","slug":"escalation-or-diminishing-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3323","title":{"rendered":"Escalation?  Or Diminishing Returns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the &#8220;classic&#8221; bumpersticker<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you&#8217;re not outraged, you&#8217;re not paying attention<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, I saw&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you&#8217;re not overwhelmed with anger, you&#8217;re not paying involved enough.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not quite sure why we had the rhetorical escalation.  But I will commence looking for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If your constant rage hasn&#8217;t made you incontinent and given you a heart attack, stroke or some hyperadrenal disorder, you should kill yourself because you&#8217;re a useless piece of garbage.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep me posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the &#8220;classic&#8221; bumpersticker If you&#8217;re not outraged, you&#8217;re not paying attention Yesterday, I saw&#8230;: If you&#8217;re not overwhelmed with anger, you&#8217;re not paying involved enough. Not quite sure why we had the rhetorical escalation. But I will commence looking for: If your constant rage hasn&#8217;t made you incontinent and given you a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}