{"id":58084,"date":"2016-03-23T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58084"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:44:39","slug":"human-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58084","title":{"rendered":"Human Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes it seems society is sliding backwards into oblivion, there are occasional bits of encouragement to be found.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest one of recent years? \u00a0The Hulk Hogan lawsuit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2016\/03\/21\/hogan-sex-tape-verdict-kill-gawker\/82070548\/\">may finally kill Gawker Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week&#8217;s jury verdict awarding Hulk Hogan $115 million had onlookers predicting\u00a0the death of Gawker Media, a collection of gossip and news web sites\u00a0that was found to have invaded\u00a0the privacy of the 80&#8217;s wrestling star\u00a0by posting snippets of him in a sex tape online<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a done deal &#8211; appeals, and possible requests to lower the awards, could save the most loathsome brand in American media.<\/p>\n<p>But until then, the policy of this blog is to support killing the Gawker with fire.<\/p>\n<p>The day Gawker finally shuts its pustulent doors, I shall throw a party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes it seems society is sliding backwards into oblivion, there are occasional bits of encouragement to be found. The biggest one of recent years? \u00a0The Hulk Hogan lawsuit may finally kill Gawker Media. Last week&#8217;s jury verdict awarding Hulk Hogan $115 million had onlookers predicting\u00a0the death of Gawker Media, a collection of gossip and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58084","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=58084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58085,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58084\/revisions\/58085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}