{"id":74351,"date":"2020-06-05T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74351"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"probably-an-academic-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74351","title":{"rendered":"Probably An Academic Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching Mayor Trudeau crying with all the convincing grace of a rented mourner over the casket of George Floyd, at the not-remotely-socially-distanced funeral (violating the Mayor&#8217;s own directives, after a week during which he abandoned a fifth of the city to looters, reigned over press conferences that looked like outtakes from &#8220;Reno 911&#8221;, got caught like a deer in the headlights when asked what his &#8220;plan&#8221; was, got bailed out by the marginally-less-incompetent State administration, blamed the destruction (accompanied as it was by thick layers of left-sympathetic graffiti) on nearly nonexistent &#8220;White Supremacists&#8221;  (who managed to somehow leave a thick layer of leftist graffiti and leave an amazing number of clearly labeled &#8220;black owned&#8221; stores more or less unscathed), I have to wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>,..is there some level of unintentional comedy below which the voters of the City of Minneapolis <em>won&#8217;t <\/em>go? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Mayor Trudeau crying with all the convincing grace of a rented mourner over the casket of George Floyd, at the not-remotely-socially-distanced funeral (violating the Mayor&#8217;s own directives, after a week during which he abandoned a fifth of the city to looters, reigned over press conferences that looked like outtakes from &#8220;Reno 911&#8221;, got caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,17,44],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-74351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-minneapolis","category-stupid","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74351","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=74351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74352,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74351\/revisions\/74352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}