{"id":74519,"date":"2020-06-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74519"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:09:53","slug":"too-far-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74519","title":{"rendered":"Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The stupidity of the mob that is seizing headlines and rewriting\/erasing history is on daily display. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/texastakes.com\/2020\/06\/21\/stevie-ray-vaughan-statue-on-town-lake-vandalized\/amp\/\">they\u2019ve gone far, far beyond too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"869\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0827.jpg 869w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0827-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0827-742x1024.jpg 742w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0827-768x1061.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a statue of legendary confederate general, slave trader and blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.<p>Wait \u2013 he was never a confederate general, never owned a slave, and was born nearly 100 years after the Civil War.Indeed, Vaughan was something of a center-lefty during his way too short life.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So <em>of course<\/em> the mob is vandalizing his statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><undefined><\/undefined><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stupidity of the mob that is seizing headlines and rewriting\/erasing history is on daily display. But now, they\u2019ve gone far, far beyond too far: It\u2019s a statue of legendary confederate general, slave trader and blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Wait \u2013 he was never a confederate general, never owned a slave, and was born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74519","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=74519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74520,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74519\/revisions\/74520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}