{"id":8742,"date":"2010-02-19T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:50:55","slug":"something-mitch-would-never-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8742","title":{"rendered":"Something Mitch Would Never Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if Mitch realized what kind of co-blogger he was getting when he added me to SITD. My own late and unlamented blog was a bit all-over-the-place, veering from politics to pop culture to media fisking to wine &amp; food. I&#8217;m pretty sure he was okay with all of that.<\/p>\n<p>But then there was the less&#8230; usual&#8230; stuff. Like the time I faked my own death and came back as a gigantic mutant godzilla-like creature. Or the time I appointed a cute puppy as my ombudsman to deflect scandalous political fallout for an entirely made up political office. Not really sure Mitch intended that stuff to make the ol&#8217; SITD transition. As of yet, I&#8217;ve not pushed the envelope to find out.<\/p>\n<p>But if there&#8217;s one thing Mitch knew darned well he&#8217;d be getting when he signed me on to post over here its&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i938.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad226\/bogusgold\/american-idol-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; starting next week. Top 12 Girls on Tuesday. Top 12 Boys on Wednesday. The very un-Mitch-like reaction posts to follow shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if Mitch realized what kind of co-blogger he was getting when he added me to SITD. My own late and unlamented blog was a bit all-over-the-place, veering from politics to pop culture to media fisking to wine &amp; food. I&#8217;m pretty sure he was okay with all of that. But then there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bogus-doug","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}