{"id":69544,"date":"2018-12-20T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69544"},"modified":"2018-12-19T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:41:05","slug":"bouncing-societys-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69544","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing Society’s Rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Headed toward another government shutdown because Democrats won\u2019t defend the border<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be more concerned about a government shutdown \u2013 women and children hardest hit \u2013 except everybody is already dead from the end of net neutrality, or soon to be dead from global climate change, so at this point, what difference does it make?<\/p>\n

Small bit of comedy in the article: \u201cThe House and Senate used to pass annual appropriation bills, and the president signed them into law.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, that was when we had a thing called \u201cbudgets.\u201d\u00a0 Democrats did away with them: too confining, too oppressive, and they never liked math anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

True.<\/p>\n

But since most government spending is on autopilot, really, what difference does it make at this point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Headed toward another government shutdown because Democrats won\u2019t defend the border. I\u2019d be more concerned about a government shutdown \u2013 women and children hardest hit \u2013 except everybody is already dead from the end of net neutrality, or soon to be dead from global climate change, so at this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69544","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=69544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69545,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69544\/revisions\/69545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}