{"id":4518,"date":"2009-04-03T07:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2009-04-03T07:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:41:35","slug":"the-fever-swamp-grows-just-a-tad-more-concentrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4518","title":{"rendered":"The Fever Swamp Grows Just A Tad More Concentrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ollie Ox&#8221; at &#8220;A Bluestem Prairie&#8221; &#8211; what is it with leftybloggers and anonymity? &#8211; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestemprairie.com\/a_bluestem_prairie\/2009\/04\/bluestem-on-hiatus-until-june-1.html\">apparently realized that liberalism is a vapid mind-suck, and that her fellow liberal bloggers range from talentless ninniesm comically depraved hacks, and wannabee Frank Riches<\/a>, and has decided to shutter her blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After posting at this blog for 2 years, 8 months, we&#8217;re feeling the need to spruce up the joint. Bluestem will be shuttered after today until June 1, when the blog will return as a venue  for nonfiction essays about rural topics.Thanks for reading<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I made up the rationale. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4479\">seems to be in vogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, all kidding aside, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2791\">I&#8217;ve mixed it up<\/a> with <em>Bluestem Prairie<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3794\">in the past<\/a>, but &#8220;Ollie&#8221; was one of very few anonymous leftybloggers who seemed not to abuse her anonymity as a cover for gutless, abusive hackery.\u00a0 Why, it&#8217;s almost like she wrote stuff a normal person could attach a name to.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. Radical concept.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all the best.<\/p>\n<p>(Two years and eight months?\u00a0 Sheesh.\u00a0 I can do that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/002904.html\">standing on my head<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ollie Ox&#8221; at &#8220;A Bluestem Prairie&#8221; &#8211; what is it with leftybloggers and anonymity? &#8211; has apparently realized that liberalism is a vapid mind-suck, and that her fellow liberal bloggers range from talentless ninniesm comically depraved hacks, and wannabee Frank Riches, and has decided to shutter her blog: After posting at this blog for 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}