{"id":76434,"date":"2021-01-12T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76434"},"modified":"2021-01-12T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:54:51","slug":"greetings-new-absolutists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76434","title":{"rendered":"Greetings, New Absolutists!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to issue a hearty &#8220;welcome&#8221; to all of you &#8220;progressives&#8221; out there who, in view of Twitter&#8217;s wholesale de-platforming not only of President Trump but masses of fairly mainstream conservatives, have become zealots for property rights (private and corporate) and freedom of association.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good for you!  It&#8217;s a big step!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now &#8211; you and your movement owe a bit of an apology to all those bakers, photographers and florists you&#8217;ve been legally harassing for the past decade.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But baby steps!  You can do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to issue a hearty &#8220;welcome&#8221; to all of you &#8220;progressives&#8221; out there who, in view of Twitter&#8217;s wholesale de-platforming not only of President Trump but masses of fairly mainstream conservatives, have become zealots for property rights (private and corporate) and freedom of association. Good for you! It&#8217;s a big step! Now &#8211; you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76434","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=76434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76435,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76434\/revisions\/76435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}