{"id":60964,"date":"2016-11-16T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60964"},"modified":"2016-11-14T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:48:17","slug":"artificial-sweetener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60964","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Sweetener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be hard to believe, but I truly do try to see the best in people. \u00a0I really do. \u00a0I actively try to find ways to find empathy with people, even &#8211; or especially &#8211; with people I disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>For example, while I agree with nothing Barack Obama did as president, I always figured he was a decent human and a good father. \u00a0Time will tell, of course.<\/p>\n<p>So when I first heard the story of the woman who ran into Hillary Clinton on a stroll in the woods the day after the election &#8211; which seemed to be a story of a plaintive, human moment &#8211; I\u00a0<em>wanted\u00a0<\/em>it to be legitimate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2016\/11\/12\/04\/3A4A21FB00000578-0-image-a-43_1478925689983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, doubts nagged at me. Hillary Clinton, walking in the woods without a Secret Service perimeter?<\/p>\n<p>Much as part of me wanted it to be a legitimate story, it nagged at me.<\/p>\n<p>As always, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3929382\/Was-Hillary-hiking-woods-photo-staged-Woman-picture-met-Clinton-fundraiser-family-hosted-ex-candidate.html\">the nagging was for good reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s the Clintons, it&#8217;s pure artifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be hard to believe, but I truly do try to see the best in people. \u00a0I really do. \u00a0I actively try to find ways to find empathy with people, even &#8211; or especially &#8211; with people I disagree with. For example, while I agree with nothing Barack Obama did as president, I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60964","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=60964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60965,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60964\/revisions\/60965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}