{"id":76582,"date":"2021-01-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76582"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:29:42","slug":"i-dont-want-to-speak-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76582","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want To Speak Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was debating whether to call this episode&#8230;.<\/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\">EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 Politico staffers signed onto a letter sent to publisher Robert Allbritton, expressing disgust with allowing right-wing firebrand Ben Shapiro to guest-author one day\u2019s edition of the Playbook <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZfqTKtKdXG\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZfqTKtKdXG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\/status\/1353835608964292609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Peak &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"63101\">Urban Progressive Privilege<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; 100+ overschooled\/badly educated, middle-on-up class, likely 20\/30-something junior members of &#8220;the elite&#8221; media who have experienced so little struggle and dissonance in their lives that they consider <em>publishing a Ben Shapiro column <\/em>a mortal threat, and feel entitled enough to whine about it in public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it &#8220;peak&#8221;?    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I say so, there will be another, worse example tomorrow.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This next two years, at the minimum, are going to be for Urban Progressive Privilege what 1977 was to white polyester suits and mens necklaces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was debating whether to call this episode&#8230;. &#8230;&#8221;Peak &#8216;Urban Progressive Privilege&#8221; &#8211; 100+ overschooled\/badly educated, middle-on-up class, likely 20\/30-something junior members of &#8220;the elite&#8221; media who have experienced so little struggle and dissonance in their lives that they consider publishing a Ben Shapiro column a mortal threat, and feel entitled enough to whine about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76582","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=76582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76583,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76582\/revisions\/76583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}