{"id":62640,"date":"2017-04-04T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62640"},"modified":"2017-04-04T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:35:46","slug":"the-russians-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62640","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when excessive concern about the Russians was a sign you were \u00a0a simple-minded Cold Warrior?<\/p>\n

The good news: \u00a0There is so far zero evidence of direct Russian “hacking” of the election. \u00a0Influence, sure – but then, Obama was nobody to gripe about people influencing foreign elections.<\/p>\n

The bad news? \u00a0They were certainly trying to sow chaos and misinformation.<\/p>\n

The worse news? \u00a0Americans are ripe for political manipulation<\/a>, and American politics is a fertile field for a seasoned chaos-monger, and our media is the problem, not the defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when excessive concern about the Russians was a sign you were \u00a0a simple-minded Cold Warrior? The good news: \u00a0There is so far zero evidence of direct Russian “hacking” of the election. \u00a0Influence, sure – but then, Obama was nobody to gripe about people influencing foreign elections. The bad news? \u00a0They were certainly trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62640","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=62640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62641,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62640\/revisions\/62641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}