{"id":4159,"date":"2009-02-05T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:21:32","slug":"time-flies-when-youre-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies When You&#8217;re Having Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I forget &#8211; today&#8217;s my BlogBirthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve related the story a time or two; it was seven years ago today, whilst working at a rapidly-failing dotcom, that I read an article at <em>Time <\/em>Magazine about Andrew Sullivan and (here&#8217;s a time-capsule piece for you) the new breed of young conservative intellectuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which featured a bit about Sullivan&#8217;s blog.\u00a0 Which I read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, after the kids were in bed, I hurried out to Blogger.com, set up the original Shot In The Dark, and scrambled to write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/002905.html\">my first post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; thanks for keeping me company all this time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I forget &#8211; today&#8217;s my BlogBirthday.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve related the story a time or two; it was seven years ago today, whilst working at a rapidly-failing dotcom, that I read an article at Time Magazine about Andrew Sullivan and (here&#8217;s a time-capsule piece for you) the new breed of young conservative intellectuals&#8230; &#8230;which featured 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":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}