{"id":77151,"date":"2021-03-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77151"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:26:46","slug":"a-litmus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77151","title":{"rendered":"A Litmus Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you believe in anything America is supposed to be about, then the phrase &#8220;The Governor is giving permission for people to\u2026&#8221; (fill in some normal thing, like gather in groups, hug their grandparents or go back to work) should be more offensive than snuff porn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should government be able to temporarily <em>pause<\/em> things under a state of emergency? Under some exceptional circumstances, with legally-defined exit criteria (y&#8217;know &#8211; like Florida has, and Minnesota doesn&#8217;t), it might be a lesser evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advise people to modify their behavior for the community good, and sanction irresponsible behavior? Like in Florida or the Dakotas?  Much better &#8211; where &#8220;perfect&#8221; is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But grant &#8220;permission?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase &#8211; which has been popping up in mainstream media with nauseating regularity &#8211; is an obscenity that must be fumigated from the American vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe in anything America is supposed to be about, then the phrase &#8220;The Governor is giving permission for people to\u2026&#8221; (fill in some normal thing, like gather in groups, hug their grandparents or go back to work) should be more offensive than snuff porn. Should government be able to temporarily pause things under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151","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=77151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77152,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151\/revisions\/77152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}