{"id":71532,"date":"2019-06-11T05:58:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71532"},"modified":"2019-06-11T05:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:58:55","slug":"lines-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71532","title":{"rendered":"Lines Like This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;are why Lileks is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2019\/06\/24\/you-call-yourself-a-car-salesman\/\">still the best<\/a> there is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI woke up this morning,\u201d I said to the salesman, \u201cand I felt like I wanted to be flattered and lied to, but there\u2019s no brothel around so I thought I\u2019d go to a dealership.\u201d<br>If he\u2019d been a dog he would have cocked his head sideways; it\u2019s possible he thought \u201cBrothel\u201d was a new soup place down the road.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve needed that dog cocking his head line so many times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;are why Lileks is still the best there is: \u201cI woke up this morning,\u201d I said to the salesman, \u201cand I felt like I wanted to be flattered and lied to, but there\u2019s no brothel around so I thought I\u2019d go to a dealership.\u201dIf he\u2019d been a dog he would have cocked his head sideways; [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532","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=71532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71533,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532\/revisions\/71533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}