{"id":87957,"date":"2024-07-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87957"},"modified":"2024-07-23T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:24:35","slug":"walk-like-a-belarussian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87957","title":{"rendered":"Walk Like A Belarussian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, our intrepid news media were falling all over themselves trying to find Donald Trump&#8217;s medical records, to verify that he&#8217;d almost been shot in the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President?\u00a0 <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em>What <\/em>President<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If it happened in Belarus, Burundi, or Myanmar, Joe Biden\u2019s blitzkrieg withdrawal from the presidential race would have inspired eye rolls. We jettisoned an incumbent president\u2019s re-election campaign with all the pomp of an NFL practice squad transaction, announcing the move via a blip of a social media post. Only in America is anyone tempted to take such head-scratching events at face value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You think you hate the media &#8211; but it&#8217;s still not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, our intrepid news media were falling all over themselves trying to find Donald Trump&#8217;s medical records, to verify that he&#8217;d almost been shot in the head.\u00a0 Today?\u00a0 President?\u00a0 What President? If it happened in Belarus, Burundi, or Myanmar, Joe Biden\u2019s blitzkrieg withdrawal from the presidential race would have inspired eye rolls. We jettisoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957","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=87957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87958,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957\/revisions\/87958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}