{"id":75529,"date":"2020-10-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75529"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:56:30","slug":"our-ruling-class-and-alternate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75529","title":{"rendered":"Our Ruling Class, And Alternate History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was June 3, 1942.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was six months since a surprise attack had gutted the US Pacific Fleet.  And as the US scrambled to bring its industrial might to bear, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto began the next move &#8211; a bid to invade and seize Midway Island, a key stopping point in prewar air travel, slated to be turned into a vital forward base.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as the Japanese fleet bore down on Midway, the Americans  pelted them with paper masks, saving the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, really.  Ask Jay Inslee.  <\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GovInslee\/status\/1313601761995702272\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dumber than Maureen Dowd?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.   Just dumb in a different way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was June 3, 1942. It was six months since a surprise attack had gutted the US Pacific Fleet. And as the US scrambled to bring its industrial might to bear, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto began the next move &#8211; a bid to invade and seize Midway Island, a key stopping point in prewar air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529","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=75529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75530,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529\/revisions\/75530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}