{"id":71784,"date":"2019-07-17T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71784"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:20:31","slug":"thought-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71784","title":{"rendered":"Thought Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I walked into your store with a sawed-off shotgun, demanded you hand over all your money, turned to leave with the loot, slipped on a banana peel, and cracked my head open, gushing blood all over the floor and rating a trip to the ER, would the local newspaper say I&#8217;d &#8220;donated blood&#8221; and &#8220;brought extra income to the local hospital?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/gun-laws-obama-has-signed-2012-12?fbclid=IwAR2qNIsyoc2BUe8NOFeIB_vYFfL3Rzv_fhXpiHl4onJ_WRjSY9TxAtW7nd4\">if I were a &#8220;progressive&#8221; who was the vessel of all the area&#8217;s media and Big Left felt about themselves<\/a>.  <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I walked into your store with a sawed-off shotgun, demanded you hand over all your money, turned to leave with the loot, slipped on a banana peel, and cracked my head open, gushing blood all over the floor and rating a trip to the ER, would the local newspaper say I&#8217;d &#8220;donated blood&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,64,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-president-obama","category-uncategorized","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784","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=71784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71785,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784\/revisions\/71785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}