{"id":78935,"date":"2021-07-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78935"},"modified":"2021-07-25T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T17:00:01","slug":"chesterton-alert-part-mcmvlx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78935","title":{"rendered":"Chesterton Alert, Part MCMVLX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The world has become too absurd to be satirized<\/em><br>\u2013 G.K. Chesterton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As God is my witness, I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/inspiring-us-womens-soccer-team-to-boycott-scoring-goals-until-racism-is-defeated\">this headline<\/a> for a few days on social media, and assumed it was <em>The Babylon Bee. <\/em>And then I wondered.  And then I confirmed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it took a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has become too absurd to be satirized\u2013 G.K. Chesterton As God is my witness, I saw this headline for a few days on social media, and assumed it was The Babylon Bee. And then I wondered. And then I confirmed it. But it took a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935","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=78935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78937,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935\/revisions\/78937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}