{"id":45836,"date":"2014-07-18T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45836"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:29:52","slug":"an-unexpected-disappointing-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45836","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Disappointing Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guided missile shoots down a Malaysian jetliner carrying over 200 people including almost 2 dozen Americans, is apparently shot down over a proxy war zone.<\/p>\n<p>The President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2696366\/It-looks-like-terrible-tragedy-Obama-briefly-addresses-Malaysian-plane-crash-emerges-23-U-S-passengers-board.html\">observes <\/a>the &#8220;tragedy&#8221; briefly, and then goes back on script to demand Republicans build more airports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tiresome to keep repeating &#8220;if it&#8217;d been <em>any <\/em>Republican, can you imagine how different the media response would be&#8221;.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guided missile shoots down a Malaysian jetliner carrying over 200 people including almost 2 dozen Americans, is apparently shot down over a proxy war zone. The President observes the &#8220;tragedy&#8221; briefly, and then goes back on script to demand Republicans build more airports.\u00a0 It&#8217;s tiresome to keep repeating &#8220;if it&#8217;d been any Republican, can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,64,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-president-obama","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836","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=45836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45844,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions\/45844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}