{"id":74775,"date":"2020-07-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74775"},"modified":"2020-07-26T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T16:40:51","slug":"some-good-news-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74775","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quick tangent before I cut to the chase:  is anyone out there as sick as me about people whining about how awful 2020 is?  Yes, epidemic and riots and collateral damage, this generation&#8217;s 9\/11, yadda yadda, I get it, it&#8217;s the worst thing people under thirty have ever seen.  Gotcha.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing it to 1962, or 1942, or 1933-1936, or 1915, or 1861, or pretty much any year the bubonic plague was active, seems pretty&#8230;trivial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But never mind &#8211; the year, bad or overrated as it may be, just got a little better:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have settled with WAPO and CNN. <br><br>The fight isn\u2019t over. 2 down. 6 to go.<br><br>Don\u2019t hold your breath <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jack<\/a>.<\/p>&mdash; Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N1ckSandmann\/status\/1286676812303564800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Much as I&#8217;d love to see one of the media outlets go to court, and lose big, this is a great start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick tangent before I cut to the chase: is anyone out there as sick as me about people whining about how awful 2020 is? Yes, epidemic and riots and collateral damage, this generation&#8217;s 9\/11, yadda yadda, I get it, it&#8217;s the worst thing people under thirty have ever seen. Gotcha. Comparing it to 1962, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74775","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=74775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74776,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74775\/revisions\/74776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}