{"id":85042,"date":"2023-05-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85042"},"modified":"2023-05-01T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:34:19","slug":"sign-o-the-times-part-mmmcclvx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85042","title":{"rendered":"Sign O&#8217; The Times, Part MMMCCLVX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1980:  Journalists and teachers were among my role models and beacons of sanity.  And the guys in KISS were symptoms of the decline of civilization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023:   One of the guys from KISS is a beacon of sanity:<\/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\/PaulStanleyLive\/status\/1652714287478059013\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And our &#8220;journalists&#8221; are signs of the decline of civilization:<\/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\/soledadobrien\/status\/1652754109324304387\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see that coming&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;more than about 30 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Note to Soledad O&#8217;Brien:  Your comparison would make sense if Paul Stanley&#8217;s parents had seen him at age six, standing in front of a mirror holding a tennis racket for a guitar, and hustled him into makeup and a leather pants suit).<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1980: Journalists and teachers were among my role models and beacons of sanity. And the guys in KISS were symptoms of the decline of civilization. 2023: One of the guys from KISS is a beacon of sanity: And our &#8220;journalists&#8221; are signs of the decline of civilization: I didn&#8217;t see that coming&#8230; &#8230;more than about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85042","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=85042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85043,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85042\/revisions\/85043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}