{"id":87808,"date":"2024-06-28T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87808"},"modified":"2024-06-30T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:51:35","slug":"87808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87808","title":{"rendered":"Pretext"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is as concise a <em>riposte <\/em>as I&#8217;ve seen:<\/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\">People who complain about the Electoral College are like people saying the team who scores the most runs in the World Series should win the series, not the team who wins the most games.<\/p>&mdash; Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miltimore79\/status\/1806038961921409239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a little saltier about this: I think abolishing the Electoral College is ample grounds for dissolving the Republic.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is as concise a riposte as I&#8217;ve seen: I&#8217;m a little saltier about this: I think abolishing the Electoral College is ample grounds for dissolving the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87808","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=87808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87813,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87808\/revisions\/87813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}