{"id":7548,"date":"2009-12-30T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2009-12-30T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:29:48","slug":"from-the-mergers-and-acquisitions-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7548","title":{"rendered":"From The Mergers And Acquisitions Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog hasn’t really changed a whole lot in eight years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While this blog started out as my personal venting space back in February of 2002, it’s always had a focus – or rather, like the guy who created it, perhaps a maddening lack of focus.\u00a0\u00a0 While this blog, like many, many center-right blogs, started at least in part as\u00a0 a reaction to 9\/11, I have never “focused” this blog; it’s always wandered the waterfront, content-wise, dabbling in subjects big (the War on Terror, liberty and its erosion, faith, conservatism, the Media) and small (Beer, Education, ridiculing overwrought and not-too-bright\u00a0leftybloggers, music, what I was doing twenty years ago at certain selected moments) and everything in between.<\/p>\n

And and even after we started adding writers – Johnny Roosh and Bogus Doug – this blog remained focused on not having a focus, really.<\/p>\n

And we hope to continue that record with the newest addition to the Shot In The Dark team.\u00a0 And with that, I’m happy to announce\u00a0that\u00a0 “The First Ringer”, longtime Twin Cities blogger and writer, is joining Shot In The Dark.\u00a0 Ringer’s debut post is below<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ringer comes to us from his eponymous “First Ringer” blog, and from “Truth Vs. The Machine”.\u00a0 He has a long track record as one of the best writers in town about…<\/p>\n

…well, all sorts of stuff.\u00a0 Which means he’ll fit in nicely.<\/p>\n

John has the same contract terms Roosh and Bogus have; whenever the urge overtakes him, whether it’s once a day or once a year, write something.\u00a0 Stop by and say “hi”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog hasn’t really changed a whole lot in eight years.\u00a0 While this blog started out as my personal venting space back in February of 2002, it’s always had a focus – or rather, like the guy who created it, perhaps a maddening lack of focus.\u00a0\u00a0 While this blog, like many, many center-right blogs, started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-ringer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","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=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}