{"id":77784,"date":"2021-05-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77784"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:50:05","slug":"things-big-left-can-still-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77784","title":{"rendered":"Things Big Left Can Still Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a history geek, I can still be amazed by historical patterns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As someone who treasures Western Civilization, those same patterns can be pretty terrifying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading through <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/10-terrifying-facts-about-the-east-german-secret-police\/\">the list of &#8220;terrifying facts&#8221; <\/a>about the East German <em>Staatssicherheitsdienst<\/em>, &#8220;State Security Service&#8221; ( the &#8220;Stasi&#8221;), it&#8217;s fascinating how many of them describe, or are rapidly starting to describe, the modern .left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>My pool entry for &#8220;first reference to January 6 or Trump &#8216;colluding&#8217; with Russia&#8221; is seven minutes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any action on that bet? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a history geek, I can still be amazed by historical patterns. As someone who treasures Western Civilization, those same patterns can be pretty terrifying. Reading through the list of &#8220;terrifying facts&#8221; about the East German Staatssicherheitsdienst, &#8220;State Security Service&#8221; ( the &#8220;Stasi&#8221;), it&#8217;s fascinating how many of them describe, or are rapidly starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-77784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-january-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77784","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=77784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77874,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77784\/revisions\/77874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}