{"id":653,"date":"2007-03-30T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/30\/at-about-this-moment\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:12:39","slug":"at-about-this-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"At About This Moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;26 years ago, I was unloading a bass amp from a pickup truck outside Jamestown High School.\u00a0 The school&#8217;s stage band had just played a noon-hour gig at a Rotary Club meeting, and was coming back to school.\u00a0 It was a warm, pleasant March day, my senior year of high school, and I really wasn&#8217;t interested in going back to class.\u00a0 I was much more interested in chatting up this <em>really <\/em>hot trumpet player&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, someone said out the door &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reagan_assassination_attempt\">President Reagan&#8217;s been shot<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I was still a Democrat back then, and had been <em>very <\/em>nervous about Reagan winning the presidency; I figured he&#8217;d reinstitute a draft and have us all fighting in Saudi Arabia before I could get to college.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t cheer on getting the news, of course (someone in the band did, although I can&#8217;t remember and don&#8217;t care who it was), while others groaned; to most of the kids, it didn&#8217;t matter that much.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Reagan&#8217;s behavior during and after the crisis helped accelerate my slide to the right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;26 years ago, I was unloading a bass amp from a pickup truck outside Jamestown High School.\u00a0 The school&#8217;s stage band had just played a noon-hour gig at a Rotary Club meeting, and was coming back to school.\u00a0 It was a warm, pleasant March day, my senior year of high school, and I really wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}