{"id":48668,"date":"2014-10-29T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48668"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:05:20","slug":"confederacy-of-dunces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48668","title":{"rendered":"Confederacy Of Dunces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson&#8217;s piece, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/388945\/five-reasons-why-youre-too-dumb-vote-kevin-d-williamson\">Five Reasons You&#8217;re Too Dumb To Vote<\/a>&#8220;, concludes with a plea to those that Lena Dunham &#8211; producer of HBO&#8217;s insipid &#8220;Girls&#8221; &#8211; would inveigle into voting for the reasons Ms. Dunham gives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to suggest, as gently as I can, that if you are voting as an act of self-gratification, if you do not understand the role that voting in fact plays in a constitutional republic, and if you need Lena Dunham to tell you why and how you should be voting \u2014 you should not vote. If you get your politics from actors and your news from television comedians \u2014 you should not vote. There\u2019s no shame in it, your vote is statistically unlikely to affect the outcome of an election, and there are many much more meaningful ways to serve your country and your fellow man: Volunteer at a homeless shelter; join the Marine Corps; become a nun; start a business.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe think about acting like men and women rather than boys and Girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What?\u00a0 You want me to add commentary to Kevin Williamson?\u00a0 No &#8211; do us both a favor and just read the whole piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson&#8217;s piece, &#8220;Five Reasons You&#8217;re Too Dumb To Vote&#8220;, concludes with a plea to those that Lena Dunham &#8211; producer of HBO&#8217;s insipid &#8220;Girls&#8221; &#8211; would inveigle into voting for the reasons Ms. Dunham gives: I would like to suggest, as gently as I can, that if you are voting as an act 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":[44],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-48668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668","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=48668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668\/revisions\/48698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}