{"id":57458,"date":"2016-02-10T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57458"},"modified":"2016-02-08T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:05:11","slug":"the-blind-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57458","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“So let’s get this straight – we\u00a0have an overwhelming majority of\u00a0young people supporting a white-haired old man who promises to give them stuff for free. \u00a0But I imagine someday they’ll be disappointed when they discover it was really their parents paying for college”.<\/p>\n

— Peter Segel, NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“So let’s get this straight – we\u00a0have an overwhelming majority of\u00a0young people supporting a white-haired old man who promises to give them stuff for free. \u00a0But I imagine someday they’ll be disappointed when they discover it was really their parents paying for college”. — Peter Segel, NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57458","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=57458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57459,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57458\/revisions\/57459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}