{"id":5381,"date":"2009-09-09T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2009-09-09T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T19:08:08","slug":"i-camille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5381","title":{"rendered":"I, Camille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Mitch already holding the title of the Twin Cities blogosphere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1180\">best feminist<\/a>, I feel it incumbent upon me to fill the role of the post-modern, liberal, lesbian, iconoclast on this blog. Or at least to emulate the television viewing habits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/paglia\/2009\/09\/09\/healthcare\/\">Camille Paglia<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I rarely watch TV anymore except for cooking shows, history and science documentaries, old movies and football. Hence I was blissfully free from the retching overkill that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy &#8212; I never saw a single minute of any of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a feeling our respective definitions of &#8220;old movies&#8221; differ quite a bit (for example mine would include the earlier Harry Potter movies which seem to broadcast every other weekend on the ABC Family channel and can be viewed with clear conscience without shooing the kiddies from the room). But otherwise that television watching description is uncannily like mine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Camille has a few other thoughts this week, including a rather extended smackdown of her fellow Democrats over their fumbling of the health care issue. It&#8217;s worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mitch already holding the title of the Twin Cities blogosphere&#8217;s best feminist, I feel it incumbent upon me to fill the role of the post-modern, liberal, lesbian, iconoclast on this blog. Or at least to emulate the television viewing habits of Camille Paglia&#8230; I rarely watch TV anymore except for cooking shows, history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,20,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bogus-doug","category-democrats","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}