{"id":59254,"date":"2016-06-24T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59254"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:14:03","slug":"of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59254","title":{"rendered":"Of Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In journalism class, my freshman year of college, the professor referred to the classic definition of the difference between news and, well, not news; &#8220;Dog bites man&#8221; is not news; &#8220;Man bites dog&#8221; is news.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/news\/why-former-gov-arne-carlson-republican-is-voting-for-hillary-clinton-8354720\">this story <\/a>qualifies as &#8220;Dog sniffs dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe &#8220;Dog licks self&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In journalism class, my freshman year of college, the professor referred to the classic definition of the difference between news and, well, not news; &#8220;Dog bites man&#8221; is not news; &#8220;Man bites dog&#8221; is news. With that in mind, this story qualifies as &#8220;Dog sniffs dog&#8221;. Or maybe &#8220;Dog licks self&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63,72,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-lefty-alt-media","category-mngop","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59254","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=59254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59321,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59254\/revisions\/59321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}