{"id":70146,"date":"2019-02-28T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70146"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:59:42","slug":"the-modern-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70146","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sarah A. Hoyt is a writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">I enjoy her column<\/a>, this line in particular:<br>\u201cYes, again, is it malice or stupidity? Perhaps we should formulate an axiom that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.\u201d<br>It\u2019s not only a clever riff on Arthur C. Clarke, it also explains so much about Democrats today.&nbsp; It\u2019s too hard to tell if they\u2019re stupid or evil and doesn\u2019t matter anyway.&nbsp; Both evil AND stupidity must be resisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The one tends to hold the door for the other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah A. Hoyt is a writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;I enjoy her column, this line in particular:\u201cYes, again, is it malice or stupidity? Perhaps we should formulate an axiom that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.\u201dIt\u2019s not only a clever riff on Arthur C. Clarke, it also explains so much about Democrats today.&nbsp; It\u2019s too hard to tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70146","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=70146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70149,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70146\/revisions\/70149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}