{"id":75476,"date":"2020-10-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75476"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:51:14","slug":"there-are-two-americas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75476","title":{"rendered":"There Are Two Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of them thinks the other is wrong, and a little crazy &#8211; in both the &#8220;annoying&#8221; and, increasingly, &#8220;dangerous&#8221; senses of the term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other hates the other America.  Also America itself. <\/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\">CA just became the first state in the nation to mandate the study and development of proposals for reparations.<br><br>Our past is one of slavery, racism, and injustice. Our systems were built to oppress people of color.<br><br>It\u2019s past time we acknowledge that.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sY8UWffqzt\">https:\/\/t.co\/sY8UWffqzt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1311432334743273472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer this goes on, the less  I think there&#8217;s any point in trying to preserve a union, barring some unforeseeable commitment to radical federalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of them thinks the other is wrong, and a little crazy &#8211; in both the &#8220;annoying&#8221; and, increasingly, &#8220;dangerous&#8221; senses of the term. The other hates the other America. Also America itself. The longer this goes on, the less I think there&#8217;s any point in trying to preserve a union, barring some unforeseeable commitment [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75476","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=75476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75485,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75476\/revisions\/75485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}