{"id":55298,"date":"2015-09-21T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55298"},"modified":"2015-09-20T22:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:25:04","slug":"everyones-an-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55298","title":{"rendered":"Everyone’s An Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the story of Ahmed “Alarm Clock” Mohammed broke, half of America has become demolitions experts. \u00a0Charles C. W. Cooke – one of my two favorite political writers in America today – notes that Ahmed Mohammed’s clock looks a lot more like a bomb than a chewed-up pop tart looks like a gun. \u00a0He’s half-right; the poptart wasn’t a gun; the clock looked like a prop from a community-theater production of “24”.<\/p>\n

The other half? \u00a0They seem to think they’re clairvoyant; the loathsome Richard Dawkins, for starters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the story of Ahmed “Alarm Clock” Mohammed broke, half of America has become demolitions experts. \u00a0Charles C. W. Cooke – one of my two favorite political writers in America today – notes that Ahmed Mohammed’s clock looks a lot more like a bomb than a chewed-up pop tart looks like a gun. \u00a0He’s half-right; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298","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=55298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55299,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298\/revisions\/55299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}