{"id":76363,"date":"2021-01-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76363"},"modified":"2021-01-05T05:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:45:34","slug":"somewhere-in-the-afterlife-walter-duranty-is-chuckling-like-a-teenager-telling-a-fart-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76363","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere In The Afterlife, Walter Duranty Is Chuckling Like A Teenager Telling A Fart Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Times change.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics swing from left to right and back and forth again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perceptions go from one extreme to the other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashions and social mores skitter back and forth and up and down over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what on this earth can we always count on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there&#8217;s a totalitarian, somewhere, anywhere, the <em>New York Times<\/em> will shill for them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China now resembles what \u201cnormal\u201d was like in the pre-pandemic world. The country reported fewer than 100,000 coronavirus infections for all of 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GqAIISVIaa\">https:\/\/t.co\/GqAIISVIaa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1346409622383505408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, when they&#8217;re not shilling for totalitarians like Fredo Cuomo and Squiggy DiBlasio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times change. Politics swing from left to right and back and forth again. Perceptions go from one extreme to the other. Fashions and social mores skitter back and forth and up and down over time. So what on this earth can we always count on? If there&#8217;s a totalitarian, somewhere, anywhere, the New York Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76363","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=76363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76363\/revisions\/76365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}