{"id":58366,"date":"2016-04-12T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58366"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:55:37","slug":"what-are-words-for-when-no-one-listens-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58366","title":{"rendered":"What Are Words For, When No-One Listens Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every gun control argument you ever heard, explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2016\/04\/10\/in-the-future-were-all-ducks-a-blast-from-the-past-post-from-1092011\/\">one sentence (emphasis added):<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t elect futurists. We elect mostly lawyers, which means people who think the world is not only made of words . . . but that <strong>if you change the words the world will change<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\nI read Sarah Hoyt, not because she\u2019s such a great writer or even a great thinker, but because she occasionally hits the ball over the stands, out of the park and into the river. This is one of those moments.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is up there with Lileks&#8217; observation &#8211; that politics is full of smart people who believe that process actually accomplishes things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Every gun control argument you ever heard, explained in one sentence (emphasis added): \u201cWe don\u2019t elect futurists. We elect mostly lawyers, which means people who think the world is not only made of words . . . but that if you change the words the world will change.\u201d I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58366","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=58366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58367,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58366\/revisions\/58367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}