{"id":75883,"date":"2020-11-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75883"},"modified":"2020-11-18T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:07:19","slug":"low-expectations-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75883","title":{"rendered":"Low Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama showed us, when you&#8217;re seen as &#8220;the first&#8221; at something (incorrectly, in Ginsburg&#8217;s case), you really don&#8217;t have to <em>do <\/em>that much or do it all that well to be revered as an epochal hero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left, anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/but-while-black-activists-remain.html\">Kamala Harris seems poised to continue that tradition<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama showed us, when you&#8217;re seen as &#8220;the first&#8221; at something (incorrectly, in Ginsburg&#8217;s case), you really don&#8217;t have to do that much or do it all that well to be revered as an epochal hero. On the left, anyway. And Kamala Harris seems poised to continue that tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883","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=75883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75884,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883\/revisions\/75884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}