{"id":80404,"date":"2021-12-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80404"},"modified":"2021-12-26T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T17:06:13","slug":"im-pretty-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80404","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Pretty Convinced&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;that Covid provides a disturbing proportion of our society with a reason to wake up in the morning; &#8220;enforcing the misery&#8221; gives their lives whatever meaning it has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which brings us to this:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1474782186972893185\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, kudos to the guy, who learned the important lesson: when a woman, no matter how wrong, no matter how impaired, no matter how depraved, attacks you, don&#8217;t hit back; your best bet is to hope for enough bruising (or, nowadays with video everywhere, clear video) to make your case in court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which I hope the guy does &#8211; winning everything this vile shrew owns or will ever own.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on point:  as the emergency winds down, expect more of this, as Karens, bereft of their purpose and. meaning, lash out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And &#8211; given that most &#8220;wars of religion&#8221; are really wars over other longstanding fault lines that happen to have a veneer of religious difference slapped on, what other fault lines will the pandemic adhere to?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got race, class, region, economics&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that Covid provides a disturbing proportion of our society with a reason to wake up in the morning; &#8220;enforcing the misery&#8221; gives their lives whatever meaning it has. Which brings us to this: First, kudos to the guy, who learned the important lesson: when a woman, no matter how wrong, no matter how impaired, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404","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=80404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80405,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404\/revisions\/80405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}