{"id":48983,"date":"2014-11-11T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48983"},"modified":"2014-11-10T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:51:06","slug":"48983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48983","title":{"rendered":"Firefight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to stating and defending their points under fire, American politicians are pansies.<\/p>\n<p>British parliamentarians? \u00a0They are like the Mike Ditkas of political speech.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one, courtesy of Margaret Thatcher, that I would love to see some Minnesota Republican, some how, some way, exhume and use in the coming session.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tetk_ayO1x4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because it applies to us, here and now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to stating and defending their points under fire, American politicians are pansies. British parliamentarians? \u00a0They are like the Mike Ditkas of political speech. And here&#8217;s one, courtesy of Margaret Thatcher, that I would love to see some Minnesota Republican, some how, some way, exhume and use in the coming session. Because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48983","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=48983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48990,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48983\/revisions\/48990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}