{"id":3632,"date":"2008-11-11T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2008-11-11T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T17:16:08","slug":"worst-writer-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"Chagrin And Bear It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that Molly &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/005309.html\">Is It White In Here<\/a>&#8221; Priesmeyer has become a victim of budget cuts at the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;<\/em>, it&#8217;s time to step back for a moment for a brief perspective check.<\/p>\n<p>Did she use obnoxious Gen-X colloquiety to mask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2685\">wafer-thin understanding of complex issues<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2319\">history<\/a>?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But even on her worst day, she was better than the person who seems to have replaced her on the facile stereotype beat at her alma mater, the <em>City Pages<\/em>, one Emily Kaiser, whose combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3489\">gutlessness<\/a>\u00a0and middle-school-level writing chops (as in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2008\/11\/bachmann_still.php\">this recent hatchet job on Michele Bachmann<\/a>) actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;make me miss Molly.<\/p>\n<p><strike>Come back, Molly.\u00a0 All is forgiven<\/strike> Hope you land a gig soon, Ms. Priesmeyer.\u00a0 A rising tide lifts all boats; likewise, three inches of brackish runoff covers the algae-sodden mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that Molly &#8220;Is It White In Here&#8221; Priesmeyer has become a victim of budget cuts at the Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;, it&#8217;s time to step back for a moment for a brief perspective check. Did she use obnoxious Gen-X colloquiety to mask wafer-thin understanding of complex issues and history?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 But even on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","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=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}