{"id":82390,"date":"2022-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82390"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:20:34","slug":"the-high-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82390","title":{"rendered":"The High Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I try to take the high road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel better when I can look back on all I\u2019ve done, after a few weeks or years, and think \u201cI may not have many standards, but I upheld them, doggone it\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not something I especially seek to change about myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019m only human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when I see statements like this from the likes of Keith Oberman \u2013 a person who \u201cachieved \u201cway more influence than anyone who came up talking about grown men chasing balls around fields deserves\u2026:<\/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\">And you know this from graffiti you saw in some park bathroom or what, Assclown?<\/p>&mdash; Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1533915054294413313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t help but ask \u201cwhy  such an oddly, intensely specific response? \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to take the high road. I feel better when I can look back on all I\u2019ve done, after a few weeks or years, and think \u201cI may not have many standards, but I upheld them, doggone it\u201c. It\u2019s not something I especially seek to change about myself. But I\u2019m only human. So when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82390","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=82390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82412,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82390\/revisions\/82412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}