{"id":61848,"date":"2017-01-24T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61848"},"modified":"2017-02-20T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:50:06","slug":"when-narratives-are-relentlessly-reinforced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61848","title":{"rendered":"When Narratives Are Relentlessly Reinforced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back during the glory days of the Tea Party, we &#8211; the\u00a0good guys &#8211; were famous, among other things, for leaving the sites of our demonstrations cleaner than they were when we arrived. \u00a0It was a bit of a point of pride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;especially when compared with the rat-infested rape camps of the media darlings of the &#8220;Occupy&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend&#8217;s &#8220;<del>Bernie Bro<\/del> Women&#8217;s March <del>against Trump<\/del>&#8221; continued the narrative:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61849\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16179047_10155733457179897_660320691787379325_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61849\" class=\"wp-image-61849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16179047_10155733457179897_660320691787379325_o-225x300.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not sure where this was taken &#8211; i got it off social media &#8211; but on a deeper level, it doesn&#8217;t matter. The &#8220;protests&#8221; of the Big Left are all centrally planned, and are about as regionally unique as McDonalds&#8217; french fries.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Does it ever fail? \u00a0No. \u00a0Not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back during the glory days of the Tea Party, we &#8211; the\u00a0good guys &#8211; were famous, among other things, for leaving the sites of our demonstrations cleaner than they were when we arrived. \u00a0It was a bit of a point of pride&#8230; &#8230;especially when compared with the rat-infested rape camps of the media darlings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61848","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=61848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61850,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61848\/revisions\/61850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}