{"id":3715,"date":"2008-12-01T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2008-11-28T18:49:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:49:51","slug":"dont-look-now-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3715","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look Now, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/radio\/programs\/midmorning\/\">Keri Miller&#8217;s &#8220;Midmorning&#8221; show on MPR<\/a> last Friday.  In the second hour, she was interviewing some sixties&#8217; folk-scene retread (the program archive seems to have left the hour blank).<\/p>\n<p>Miller asked &#8211; with a face that sounded straight (I&#8217;m paraphrasing very closely): &#8220;<em>Now that Obama has been elected president, do you think American people are ready for the sacrifices he asked of them<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I almost swerved into an oncoming car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHAT SACRIFICES did he &#8220;ask&#8221; of the American people?&#8221; I yelled at the radio, not quite remembering that I didn&#8217;t have a mike in front of me.  &#8220;When did Obama talk about sacrifice?  He couldn&#8217;t even articulate the sacrifices he was going to &#8220;ask&#8221; the American people in the debates, for crying out loud?  Five&#8217;ll getcha ten the typical Obama voter is thinking &#8220;<em>Yippee!  My mortgage and gas will get paid!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seirously &#8211; what &#8220;sacrifices&#8221; did The One &#8220;ask&#8221; of anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Keri Miller&#8217;s &#8220;Midmorning&#8221; show on MPR last Friday. In the second hour, she was interviewing some sixties&#8217; folk-scene retread (the program archive seems to have left the hour blank). Miller asked &#8211; with a face that sounded straight (I&#8217;m paraphrasing very closely): &#8220;Now that Obama has been elected president, do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","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=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}