{"id":78735,"date":"2021-07-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78735"},"modified":"2021-07-12T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:57:51","slug":"woke-with-a-side-of-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78735","title":{"rendered":"Woke With A Side Of Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/birchwood-cafe-staff-shakeup-follows-arduous-pandemic-year-racial-reckoning\/600077285\/\">this story from the strib<\/a> it sounds like the Birchwood is no longer slinging hash (er avocado toast) for cash, but is providing amuse-bouche for people who are working their way through the three steps of Maoist Self-Criticism. The question for the author, Ms Du, to answer for the reader would be &#8220;Is their food any good?&#8221; I have eaten there and the answer is they are at their best mediocre, plus they don&#8217;t know how to make coffee and skip the pie.There is not much joy in listening to White Urban Privilege whinge about the traumas induced by <em>The Patriarchy<\/em> while you&#8217;re working your way through some dismal chick-pea with burnt bell pepper concoction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>These sorts of places can \u2013 I say, <em>can<\/em> &#8211;  be fun for the flavor of people watching I\u2019m starting to call \u201cvirtue signal intelligence\u201c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: Reading this story from the strib it sounds like the Birchwood is no longer slinging hash (er avocado toast) for cash, but is providing amuse-bouche for people who are working their way through the three steps of Maoist Self-Criticism. The question for the author, Ms Du, to answer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735","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=78735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78736,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735\/revisions\/78736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}