{"id":62650,"date":"2017-04-07T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62650"},"modified":"2017-04-08T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T17:04:38","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62650","title":{"rendered":"Unclear On The Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;Evidence of a shoddy education&#8221;: around the world,\u00a0(we are told) the movie adaptation of George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8221; is being screened\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/849276335801475072\">protest Donald Trump<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Forget for a moment that Orwell wrote the book as a satire of contemporary British far leftists snd their tendency to eat each other, not to mention the horrors of the Stalinist regime that they were busily sweeping under the rug at the time.<\/p>\n<p>No. \u00a0The funny thing, I&#8217;m going to bet, is that the &#8220;progressives&#8221; &#8211; who will no doubt need to buy two tickets to the screening to save a chair for their self-righteousness and indignation &#8211; after the election we just had, will no\u00a0doubt will see themselves as Winston Smith, rather than O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;Evidence of a shoddy education&#8221;: around the world,\u00a0(we are told) the movie adaptation of George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8221; is being screened\u2026 \u2026to &#8220;protest Donald Trump&#8220;. Forget for a moment that Orwell wrote the book as a satire of contemporary British far leftists snd their tendency to eat each other, not to mention the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650","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=62650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62693,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650\/revisions\/62693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}