{"id":81857,"date":"2022-05-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81857"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:30:30","slug":"coming-not-to-bury-but-to-strange-as-it-may-seem-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81857","title":{"rendered":"Coming Not To Bury, But To (Strange As It May Seem) Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This blog hasn&#8217;t shown a lot of love for Ilhan Omar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of good reasons for that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as Greenwald points out, there&#8217;s more than one dimension to keep in mind:<\/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\">I know she&#39;s been demonized by right-wing media to the point of caricature, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlhanMN<\/a> is easily the most independent-minded and principled Squad member, arguably the most independent in the Dem caucus. Among other things, she: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3dQyiAFVtH\">pic.twitter.com\/3dQyiAFVtH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1520037615256449024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first point in particular &#8211; I was unaware of it, but am happy to see she stood on a principle most of us can agree on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It almost physically hurts to say it, but ya gotta give her some credit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The honeymoon won&#8217;t last, but let&#8217;s give her that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog hasn&#8217;t shown a lot of love for Ilhan Omar. There are a lot of good reasons for that. But as Greenwald points out, there&#8217;s more than one dimension to keep in mind: The first point in particular &#8211; I was unaware of it, but am happy to see she stood on a principle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-mn-congressional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857","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=81857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81860,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857\/revisions\/81860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}