{"id":87493,"date":"2024-05-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87493"},"modified":"2024-05-06T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:23:41","slug":"not-my-better-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87493","title":{"rendered":"Not My Better Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching our &#8220;Best and Brightest&#8221; in action&#8230;:<\/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\">Princeton students are going on a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians and to pressure the University to give in to their demands. They have people on hand checking their vitals and donating to them. So stunning and brave.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/628bQEEEQs\">pic.twitter.com\/628bQEEEQs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1787265304298487898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m reminded of a coach we had in college. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A famously blunt man, he would have likely looked at kids like this best\/brightest and said &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a kind face.  The kind of face I&#8217;d like to throw shit at&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say it resonates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; is it just me, or is &#8220;Best and Brightest&#8221; joining &#8220;Vibrant!&#8221; as a new sarcastic antonym?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching our &#8220;Best and Brightest&#8221; in action&#8230;: &#8230;I&#8217;m reminded of a coach we had in college. A famously blunt man, he would have likely looked at kids like this best\/brightest and said &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a kind face. The kind of face I&#8217;d like to throw shit at&#8221;. Let&#8217;s just say it resonates. By the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-gaza-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493","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=87493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87494,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493\/revisions\/87494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}