{"id":79581,"date":"2021-09-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79581"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:39:01","slug":"when-reality-is-absurd-parody-is-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79581","title":{"rendered":"When Reality Is Absurd, Parody Is Impossible"},"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>I had to look up this Twitter account because I was sure it was parody, but it wasn&#8217;t. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/screenshot_20210922-214941_twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/screenshot_20210922-214941_twitter.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/screenshot_20210922-214941_twitter-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/screenshot_20210922-214941_twitter-640x1024.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/screenshot_20210922-214941_twitter-768x1229.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=76962\">Berg&#8217;s 21st Law<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;When it comes to \u201cprogressive\u201d policy, yesterday\u2019s absurd joke is today\u2019s serious proposal and tomorrow\u2019s potential law. &#8211; applies to policy, but I think rhetoric probably qualifies as well. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: I had to look up this Twitter account because I was sure it was parody, but it wasn&#8217;t. Berg&#8217;s 21st Law &#8211; &#8220;When it comes to \u201cprogressive\u201d policy, yesterday\u2019s absurd joke is today\u2019s serious proposal and tomorrow\u2019s potential law. &#8211; applies to policy, but I think rhetoric probably qualifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581","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=79581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79585,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79581\/revisions\/79585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}