{"id":76358,"date":"2021-01-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76358"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:08:32","slug":"hidden-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76358","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Blessing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may be a bit much to hope that America&#8217;s celebrity culture (like &#8220;expert&#8221;-worship) might be an ongoing casualty of Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/02\/2020-taught-us-one-good-thing-celebrities-are-meaningless\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons\">an encouraging year on that front<\/a>, if nothing else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just to help remind you how &#8220;we&#8217;re all in it together&#8221;, here&#8217;s a parade of society&#8217;s useless celebrity mouths, from last spring, telling all of us plebs to be patient, because socialism is on the way, ho ho ho:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrities sing beautiful &#039;Imagine&#039; cover amid coronavirus crisis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lgNPGH1rXI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a bit much to hope that America&#8217;s celebrity culture (like &#8220;expert&#8221;-worship) might be an ongoing casualty of Covid-19. But it&#8217;s been an encouraging year on that front, if nothing else. And just to help remind you how &#8220;we&#8217;re all in it together&#8221;, here&#8217;s a parade of society&#8217;s useless celebrity mouths, from last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358","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=76358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76359,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358\/revisions\/76359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}