{"id":80036,"date":"2021-11-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80036"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:17:15","slug":"our-betters-have-spoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80036","title":{"rendered":"Our Betters Have Spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In fact, my presumption is that anyone tweeting that American cities burned last summer is either working for the Russians or a dumbass dupe of them.<\/p>&mdash; Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomricks1\/status\/1460073855289024512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, there <em>is <\/em>a dumbass dupe in the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter: Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020. Well, there is a dumbass dupe in the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,18,337,51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-pc","category-privilege","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036","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=80036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80052,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036\/revisions\/80052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}