{"id":60606,"date":"2016-10-14T06:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60606"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:22:01","slug":"do-your-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60606","title":{"rendered":"Do Your Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of this blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I really am not familiar with Mike Rowe, but a quick Google indicates he has a reality TV show on cable. But, I really<a href=\"http:\/\/qpolitical.com\/24-hours-after-last-nights-debate-mike-rowe-makes-a-huge-confession-on-what-he-see-wrong-with-this-election\/\"> enjoyed this and thought you might enjoy it as well<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">I had seen the article by Rowe already. \u00a0And it made a point that, I suspect, only he could make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Our push to get people to the polls, and elevate voting to the highest of civic virtues, is intensely misguided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Uninformed? Incurious? \u00a0Have a worldview based entirely on chanting points? \u00a0Why\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>you go out of your way to make your fairly facile voice heard, running the most complex organization in humanity, when you really don&#8217;t get how it works or why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of this blog writes: I really am not familiar with Mike Rowe, but a quick Google indicates he has a reality TV show on cable. But, I really enjoyed this and thought you might enjoy it as well: I had seen the article by Rowe already. \u00a0And it made a point that, [&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-60606","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\/60606","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=60606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions\/60607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}