{"id":958,"date":"2007-06-21T04:05:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/21\/like-rain-on-your-wedding-day\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T04:05:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T10:05:01","slug":"like-rain-on-your-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Like Rain On Your Wedding Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Coleman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/357\/story\/1256362.html\">latest column is particularly incoherent<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really beneath fisking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I thought this bit (emphasis added) was a welcome improvement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Get Motivated!&#8221; includes talks from Zig Ziglar (couldn&#8217;t his parents have given him a decent first name?), Colin Powell (hey, he helped lie his country into war!) and <em>John Stossel, the officious prig and unsung hero who drove Barbara Walters off &#8220;20\/20.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, not that he&#8217;s become a great columnist or anything.\u00a0\u00a0But it seems he&#8217;s\u00a0learned to parody himself FOR us &#8211; or at least deliver the material, gift-wrapped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Coleman&#8217;s latest column is particularly incoherent.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really beneath fisking.\u00a0 But I thought this bit (emphasis added) was a welcome improvement: &#8220;Get Motivated!&#8221; includes talks from Zig Ziglar (couldn&#8217;t his parents have given him a decent first name?), Colin Powell (hey, he helped lie his country into war!) and John Stossel, the officious prig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}