{"id":57475,"date":"2016-02-09T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57475"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:26:32","slug":"todays-news-a-month-ago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57475","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s News, A Month Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January: \u00a0the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement watched President Obama&#8217;s tearful, angry, and utterly theatrical broadside about guns, gun owners and gun manufacturers, noted that nearly everything he was &#8220;proposing&#8221; was existing law already, and said that the President&#8217;s big &#8220;effort&#8221; was nothing but a shallow bit of political grandstanding calculated to make it look like he planned to, as his supporters wailed, &#8220;dooooooooooo something&#8221;, without actually signing the political death warrants of every Democrat between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre.<\/p>\n<p>February: \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/08\/us\/politics\/obamas-lofty-plans-on-gun-violence-amount-to-little-action.html?_r=0\">New York Times notices the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: \u00a0the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement are smarter and better-informed than the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January: \u00a0the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement watched President Obama&#8217;s tearful, angry, and utterly theatrical broadside about guns, gun owners and gun manufacturers, noted that nearly everything he was &#8220;proposing&#8221; was existing law already, and said that the President&#8217;s big &#8220;effort&#8221; was nothing but a shallow bit of political grandstanding calculated to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-president-obama","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57475","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=57475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57495,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57475\/revisions\/57495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}