{"id":49593,"date":"2014-12-04T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49593"},"modified":"2014-12-04T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:46:39","slug":"maybe-dog-whistles-just-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49593","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Dog Whistles Just Jumped The Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if I have anything to say about it, they have.  <\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/12\/03\/total-fail-viewers-snipe-over-darius-rucker-singing-white-christmas-at-rock-center\/\">this particular episode <\/a>may be the most parity worthy bit of leftist prattle I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Darius Rucker \u2013 African-American country western singer and onetime member of &#8220;Hootie and the Blowfish&#8221; \u2013 saying the seasonal classic &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; on NBC broadcast last night.<\/p>\n<p>In the reaction was the kind of thing you do found in parody, 15 short, yet much smarter, years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3029.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3029.png\" alt=\"IMG_3029.PNG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was it that PJ O&#8217;Rourke said? &#8220;Life is full of irony, when you&#8217;re stupid&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if I have anything to say about it, they have. Because this particular episode may be the most parity worthy bit of leftist prattle I&#8217;ve ever seen. Darius Rucker \u2013 African-American country western singer and onetime member of &#8220;Hootie and the Blowfish&#8221; \u2013 saying the seasonal classic &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; on NBC broadcast last night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593","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=49593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49597,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593\/revisions\/49597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}