{"id":74368,"date":"2020-06-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74368"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:03:05","slug":"when-government-imitates-the-onion-the-people-will-imitate-babylon-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74368","title":{"rendered":"When Government Imitates &#8220;The Onion&#8221;, The People Will Imitate &#8220;Babylon Bee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Carolina speedway declares its stock car race a &#8220;peaceful protest&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A North Carolina speedway drew a crowd of more than 2,000 spectators in defiance of the state\u2019s coronavirus restrictions after declaring the race a \u201cprotest.\u201d<\/p><p>The governor\u2019s office had warned Ace Speedway in Elon earlier this week that a crowd of more than 25 would violate the state\u2019s Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions.<\/p><p>But news outletsreport that more than 2,000 attended a race Saturday night. A sign from management outside the speedway said, \u201cThis Event is held in Peaceful Protest of Injustice and Inequality Everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That might be what I need to do to have that NARN Tenth Anniversary party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina speedway declares its stock car race a &#8220;peaceful protest&#8221;: A North Carolina speedway drew a crowd of more than 2,000 spectators in defiance of the state\u2019s coronavirus restrictions after declaring the race a \u201cprotest.\u201d The governor\u2019s office had warned Ace Speedway in Elon earlier this week that a crowd of more than 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,24],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-culture-war","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74368","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=74368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74369,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74368\/revisions\/74369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}