{"id":79738,"date":"2021-10-13T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79738"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:22:35","slug":"how-times-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79738","title":{"rendered":"How Times Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About this time seven years ago, I was writing the series of blog posts that eventually become my book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trulbert-Comic-Novella-About-World-ebook\/dp\/B00YL2UBLQ\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1433093628&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=trulbert\">Trulbert<\/a><\/em>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book described a fictional breakdown of society after a financial cataclysm.  I did it as satire because, honestly, it seemed like a more effective approach to the subject; Kurt Schlichter is going to put his kids through medical school with the proceeds from his fiction about a second Civil War, and he&#8217;s far from alone.  And sometime humor is the best journalism.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t to say <em>Trulbert <\/em>was &#8220;the best journalism&#8221;, but sometimes the indirect approach is the best one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve pondered doing a follow-up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m having a really, really hard time getting to &#8220;satirical&#8221; again.  And I think it ties into the G.K. Chesterton quote &#8211; &#8220;when everything is absurd, satire is impossible&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brandon Administration, and the times it rules over, are impossible to satirize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out the angle for the next book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A children&#8217;s story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A musical?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got nothing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this time seven years ago, I was writing the series of blog posts that eventually become my book Trulbert. The book described a fictional breakdown of society after a financial cataclysm. I did it as satire because, honestly, it seemed like a more effective approach to the subject; Kurt Schlichter is going to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738","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=79738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79739,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79738\/revisions\/79739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}