{"id":451,"date":"2007-02-13T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T21:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/abagist\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T21:12:39","slug":"abagist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Abagist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Miss Attila <a href=\"http:\/\/littlemissattila.mu.nu\/archives\/215455.php\">on Marcotte<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actually, deep down I feel sorry for Amanda Marcotte\u2014in the same way I felt sorry for Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s, and Washingtonienne two years ago or whenever: when I was young and did stupid things only a handful of people knew about them.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that whenever a young woman behaves like an idiot, everyone knows about it. Forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s sympathy speaking, though&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And of course I relate to young Marcotte: the shrill feminism, the all-yang-no-yin personality. The hyper-emotionalism, and its corrosive effect on her writing.<\/p>\n<p>I was like that. Still am, in a lot of ways. But to the degree that I&#8217;ve grown up at all, I&#8217;m glad I was able to do it out of the public spotlight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If blogging has done one thing, it&#8217;s given idiots, defectives and the grossly immature a forum for making those adolescent mistakes in front of millions.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;d be amazed if Marcotte&#8217;s not north of 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Miss Attila on Marcotte: Actually, deep down I feel sorry for Amanda Marcotte\u2014in the same way I felt sorry for Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s, and Washingtonienne two years ago or whenever: when I was young and did stupid things only a handful of people knew about them. Now it seems that whenever 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":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}