{"id":44830,"date":"2014-06-12T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44830"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:07:28","slug":"fake-it-til-you-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44830","title":{"rendered":"Fake It &#8216;Til You Make It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2014\/06\/11\/obama_the_world_is_less_violent_than_it_has_ever_been.html#.U5m_8Nsdrjs.facebook\">we learn from our &#8220;President&#8221;<\/a> that gun violence (which has dropped by half in the past twenty years) &#8220;has never been worse&#8221;, but that the world &#8220;has never been less violent&#8221; (as the Middle East spirals toward a general conflagration).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even Jimmy Carter knew better than to look at a bowl full of crap and call it organic sherbet.<\/p>\n<p>But Jimmy Carter was targeting an electorate that was paying attention.\u00a0 Obama never has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which we learn from our &#8220;President&#8221; that gun violence (which has dropped by half in the past twenty years) &#8220;has never been worse&#8221;, but that the world &#8220;has never been less violent&#8221; (as the Middle East spirals toward a general conflagration).\u00a0 Even Jimmy Carter knew better than to look at a bowl full of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830","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=44830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44834,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions\/44834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}