{"id":82901,"date":"2022-07-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82901"},"modified":"2022-07-21T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T10:24:15","slug":"the-thing-about-progressives-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82901","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About &#8220;Progressives&#8221; is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you lelt them babble on long enough, they always prove you right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82902\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2.png 800w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2-300x234.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2-768x600.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2-384x300.png 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; newspaper editorial cartoonists take a test when they&#8217;re interviewing, measuring their knowledge of current events, history, and their understanding of the ins and outs of American society.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they score over 50%, they get a job in the warehouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under?  Cartooning.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Sack is gone &#8211; but stupid is eternal .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you lelt them babble on long enough, they always prove you right: By the way &#8211; newspaper editorial cartoonists take a test when they&#8217;re interviewing, measuring their knowledge of current events, history, and their understanding of the ins and outs of American society. If they score over 50%, they get a job in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82901","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=82901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82903,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82901\/revisions\/82903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}