{"id":79368,"date":"2021-08-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79368"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:27:45","slug":"unexpected-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79368","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Andy Richter is, by a very liberal definition, a \u201cHollywood star\u201c, having gotten his start as Conan O\u2019Briens, for lack of a better term, \u201ccomic\u201c foil, I shouldn\u2019t be too uncharitable; comedy is hard, and O\u2019Brien proves it.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But time flies, and Richter has a kid who\u2019s going off to college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, trying to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2012.jpg 590w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2012-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2012-500x287.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the very, very long Twitter thread that followed, Richter evidenced no sense of connecting his plight with the eviction moratorium that has been strangling the rental industry for the past year and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty domestic (if needlessly snide) representation of Big Populist Left\u2019s entire approach to, well, pretty much everything:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2011.jpg 474w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2011-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Richter is, by a very liberal definition, a \u201cHollywood star\u201c, having gotten his start as Conan O\u2019Briens, for lack of a better term, \u201ccomic\u201c foil, I shouldn\u2019t be too uncharitable; comedy is hard, and O\u2019Brien proves it. But time flies, and Richter has a kid who\u2019s going off to college. Well, trying to: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79368","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=79368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79387,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79368\/revisions\/79387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}