{"id":56589,"date":"2015-12-11T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56589"},"modified":"2015-12-11T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:56:05","slug":"now-im-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56589","title":{"rendered":"<i>Now<\/i> I&#8217;m Laughing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Colbert built a career\u00a0playing a broad &#8220;Major Bloodnock&#8221;-style caricature of a conservative, designed to make liberals titter knowingly (if, usually, autonomically; Colbert may have been, if possible, even more an innovation of &#8220;duckspeak&#8221; than his benefactor, Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s gotta be himself and win and audience?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that smell? \u00a0Yep &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/uncategorized\/colbert-slips-to-4th-place-in-late-night-race-beaten-by-seth-meyers-who-airs-one-hour-later\/\">the stench of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Colbert built a career\u00a0playing a broad &#8220;Major Bloodnock&#8221;-style caricature of a conservative, designed to make liberals titter knowingly (if, usually, autonomically; Colbert may have been, if possible, even more an innovation of &#8220;duckspeak&#8221; than his benefactor, Jon Stewart. Now that he&#8217;s gotta be himself and win and audience? What&#8217;s that smell? \u00a0Yep &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56589","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=56589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56589\/revisions\/56632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}