{"id":88981,"date":"2025-01-02T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88981"},"modified":"2025-01-02T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:47:49","slug":"look-back-in-not-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88981","title":{"rendered":"Look Back In&#8230;Not Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the more satisfying stories of this past year was watching the accelerating decay of the mainstream media&#8217;s influence over society.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this was one of my favorite examples:<\/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\">Remember when legacy media colluded with the DNC\/Kamala camp to run the \u201cJoy!\u201d campaign?<br><br>In retrospect, it\u2019s hysterical.<br><br>\ud83e\udd21\ud83c\udf0e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oxHBnURRV1\">pic.twitter.com\/oxHBnURRV1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/1873821293231169721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the orwellian &#8220;Joy&#8221; campaign get pelted with rhetorical rocks and garbage by the commoners was one of the greatest, er, joys I&#8217;ve had, at least politically, in recent years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more satisfying stories of this past year was watching the accelerating decay of the mainstream media&#8217;s influence over society. And this was one of my favorite examples: Watching the orwellian &#8220;Joy&#8221; campaign get pelted with rhetorical rocks and garbage by the commoners was one of the greatest, er, joys I&#8217;ve had, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,130,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-tc-media-bias","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981","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=88981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88982,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981\/revisions\/88982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}