{"id":38159,"date":"2013-09-06T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38159"},"modified":"2013-09-06T06:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T11:42:46","slug":"you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38159","title":{"rendered":"You Be The Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since before the 2008 election &#8211; actually, probably since 2006 &#8211; I re-read my 2004 series, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/cat_secession_diaries.html\">Secession Diaries<\/a>&#8220;, the other day.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2004 election, pouting lefties proposed allowing the blue states to secede and unite with Canada, creating two countries &#8211; the &#8220;United States of Canada&#8221;, the progressive blue\/Canadian union, and &#8220;Jesusland&#8221;, the red states.<\/p>\n<p>My series explored the results of a potential split.\u00a0 And it was fictional.<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;was it?<\/p>\n<p>In rereading the series, I was a litte amazed at how many of my comic japes from nine years ago have actually come to pass.\u00a0 Example:\u00a0 in the story, a hurricane devastates the Mid-Atlantic.\u00a0 Relief efforts are hampred by union goons ejecting non-union relief workers.\u00a0 Fact or fiction?\u00a0 Both!<\/p>\n<p>I will submit it for your approval.\u00a0 And partly to start my head churning for an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since before the 2008 election &#8211; actually, probably since 2006 &#8211; I re-read my 2004 series, &#8220;Secession Diaries&#8220;, the other day. After the 2004 election, pouting lefties proposed allowing the blue states to secede and unite with Canada, creating two countries &#8211; the &#8220;United States of Canada&#8221;, the progressive blue\/Canadian union, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38159","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=38159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38175,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38159\/revisions\/38175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}