{"id":75887,"date":"2020-11-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75887"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:46:30","slug":"there-was-a-time-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75887","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;when the Southern Poverty Law Center did actual useful work fighting real injustice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those days are at least 30 years behind us.  The SPLC today is no less a lefty PR firm than Media Matters or Common Cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it appears th<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1328018609659064321\">e ACLU is well down that same path<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when the Southern Poverty Law Center did actual useful work fighting real injustice. Those days are at least 30 years behind us. The SPLC today is no less a lefty PR firm than Media Matters or Common Cause. And it appears the ACLU is well down that same path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,426,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75887","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=75887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75888,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75887\/revisions\/75888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}