{"id":73631,"date":"2020-03-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73631"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:35:30","slug":"disconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73631","title":{"rendered":"Disconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is today&#8217;s celebrity class:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This video is Wuhan Virus for your eyes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AaUfgBuzqQ\">pic.twitter.com\/AaUfgBuzqQ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Carpe Donktum\ud83d\udd39 (@CarpeDonktum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarpeDonktum\/status\/1240503386795134977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The TL:dw version:   A bunch of entitled, overpaid people blessed\/cursed with fame, are virtue-signaling the rest of us by &#8220;singing&#8221; the worst song in pop music history [1] &#8211; a mewling paeon to socialism and atheism from a singer who himself became so embittered and disconnected from the world by his fame and wealth that it had become something of a cultural punch line before he was murdered and became the icon for the death of every baby boomer&#8217;s innocence &#8211; as they hole up in their Manhattan condos, California estates and rural getaways&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;as millions of people wonder how long their paychecks are going to keep coming, or if they will, and the rest of the country waits to see if the army of homeless that crowd California&#8217;s streets get completely ravaged by this new plague.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, indeed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a hugeLarry the Cable Guy fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/mar\/20\/larry-the-cable-guy-rips-clueless-celebs-who-filme\/\">but for today, I am totally on board<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] This may be a reach &#8211; but work with me, here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think &#8220;ex-Beatle preference&#8221; is a key dispositive indicator of political outlook and personal attitude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect &#8220;progressives&#8221; prefer John Lennon.  He was the angsty,  prickly one, the one who seemed most prone to have a penchant for Sylvia Plath  He died tragically, relatively young, and in the grand romantic tradition, illustrating and confirming the progressive&#8217;s innate hopelessness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess conservatives trend toward the sunny, optimistic, irrepressible McCartney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me?  I&#8217;m a guitar player.  I&#8217;m with Harrison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today&#8217;s celebrity class: This video is Wuhan Virus for your eyes.pic.twitter.com\/AaUfgBuzqQ \u2014 Carpe Donktum\ud83d\udd39 (@CarpeDonktum) March 19, 2020 The TL:dw version: A bunch of entitled, overpaid people blessed\/cursed with fame, are virtue-signaling the rest of us by &#8220;singing&#8221; the worst song in pop music history [1] &#8211; a mewling paeon to socialism 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":[8,416,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-covid19","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73631","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=73631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73635,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73631\/revisions\/73635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}