{"id":47292,"date":"2014-09-19T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47292"},"modified":"2014-09-19T06:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:14:27","slug":"dear-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47292","title":{"rendered":"Dear Blue States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Blue States<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Examples<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Blues,<\/p>\n<p>Scotland has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-29270441\">voted to stay in the United Kingdom<\/a> (provided the UK&#8217;s taxpayers pay more for its care and feeding).<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps there&#8217;s a lesson in there for you.<\/p>\n<p>Given your contempt for those who think differently than you &#8211; &#8220;<em>What&#8217;s the Matter With Kansas<\/em>&#8220;, anyone? &#8211; and the conceit you cling to that you pay the nation&#8217;s freight (it&#8217;s BS, but it&#8217;s Krugman, so you all are attached to it), perhaps it&#8217;s time for you to follow the Scots&#8217; example.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you should get high on dudgeon, and take your toys and go elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll show us!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>That is all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Blue States From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0Examples Hey, Blues, Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom (provided the UK&#8217;s taxpayers pay more for its care and feeding). But perhaps there&#8217;s a lesson in there for you. Given your contempt for those who think differently than you &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292","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=47292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47294,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292\/revisions\/47294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}