{"id":84868,"date":"2023-04-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84868"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:35:59","slug":"i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84868","title":{"rendered":"I Couldn&#8217;t Have Said It Better Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I won&#8217;t try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Shawn Holster &#8211; long-time friend of the blog, show and me personally:<\/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\">No, I will not use the term &quot;unhoused&quot; For one, a physical structure to reside in is only one aspect of which is missing in the term [home]lessness. Two &#8211; &quot;housing&quot; is a political euphemism. Progressive policy seeks a nation of renters, not homeowners. Why? Dependency.<\/p>&mdash; Shawn Holster (@ShawnHolster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnHolster\/status\/1643454613922942977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is indeed a short step from &#8220;Unhoused People&#8221; to &#8220;Un-Corralled LIvestock&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ownership culture is a mortal threat to progressivism &#8211; which is why Big Left is trying to ease its linguistic relics out of the language. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I won&#8217;t try. This is Shawn Holster &#8211; long-time friend of the blog, show and me personally: It is indeed a short step from &#8220;Unhoused People&#8221; to &#8220;Un-Corralled LIvestock&#8221;. Ownership culture is a mortal threat to progressivism &#8211; which is why Big Left is trying to ease its linguistic relics out of the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84868","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=84868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84869,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84868\/revisions\/84869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}