{"id":65850,"date":"2018-02-05T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65850"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T04:46:04","slug":"the-blog-can-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65850","title":{"rendered":"The Blog Can Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And for its sixteenth birthday vehicle, it chooses a 1968 Lotus 49.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cdn.autocar.co.uk\/sites\/autocar.co.uk\/files\/styles\/gallery_slide\/public\/images\/car-reviews\/first-drives\/legacy\/49-r2_r11-jim-clark-british-gp-1967.jpg?itok=DJIXYGu0\" width=\"900\" height=\"596\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Shot In The Dark\u00a0<\/em>started sixteen years ago today.\u00a0 I was in my isolated basement cube at a doomed startup just about the time the dotcom bubble started popping.\u00a0 I read an article on Time.com about this new phenomenon, blogging, bringing unprecedented number of people to the marketplace of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Having been a frustrated pundit in my twenties, it called out to me; I started reading Andrew Sullivan, and that night I went out to Blogger.com and started &#8220;Shot in the Dark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood&#8217;s changed since then.\u00a0 Other blogs have come and gone.\u00a0 Others &#8211; Ed Morrissey, Powerline &#8211; made it big, and turned into self-sustaining ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Me?\u00a0 I just kept on writing.\u00a0 And here I am today.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; thanks to all of you for joining me on this ride.\u00a0 It&#8217;s never gotten old.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like the Lotus 49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for its sixteenth birthday vehicle, it chooses a 1968 Lotus 49. Shot In The Dark\u00a0started sixteen years ago today.\u00a0 I was in my isolated basement cube at a doomed startup just about the time the dotcom bubble started popping.\u00a0 I read an article on Time.com about this new phenomenon, blogging, bringing unprecedented number 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":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65850","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=65850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65863,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65850\/revisions\/65863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}