{"id":77363,"date":"2021-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77363"},"modified":"2021-04-03T07:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T12:45:02","slug":"as-long-as-were-challenging-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77363","title":{"rendered":"As Long As We&#8217;re Challenging People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Strib <\/em>tweeted this over the weekend:<\/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\">The Clean Speech challenge has arrived in Minnesota. Can you use only kind words for the rest of April?    <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jL3V0D38OY\">https:\/\/t.co\/jL3V0D38OY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1378157805216137219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 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, I&#8217;ve done it before.   I used to give up cursing for Lent.  It was a fascinating exercise, even though I&#8217;ve never been among the more foul-mouthed people I know.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve got a better idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s do a &#8220;Detached Journalism Challenge&#8221;.   Let&#8217;s try to not be stenographers for Big Left for a whole month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I got this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about you, <em>Star\/Tribune<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib tweeted this over the weekend: I mean, I&#8217;ve done it before. I used to give up cursing for Lent. It was a fascinating exercise, even though I&#8217;ve never been among the more foul-mouthed people I know. But I&#8217;ve got a better idea: Let&#8217;s do a &#8220;Detached Journalism Challenge&#8221;. Let&#8217;s try to not be [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77363","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=77363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77364,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77363\/revisions\/77364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}