{"id":36683,"date":"2013-06-16T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36683"},"modified":"2013-06-10T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:29:42","slug":"doakes-sunday-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36683","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park is a pretty peripatetic writer. \u00a0Some weeks, he sends me a couple emails on a couple of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Other weeks, I think he may write more stuff than I do. \u00a0And he doesn&#8217;t actually want to\u00a0<em>write for this blog<\/em>, per se; just likes to send &#8220;letters to the editor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And I figured it was time I pared down some of the backlog. \u00a0So today, I&#8217;m going to run a slew of Joe&#8217;s emails that, for whatever reason, I didn&#8217;t run during this past week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Come on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/twins\/ci_23375048\/yankees-fan-says-hes-111-but-has-no\">give the guy a break<\/a>. It&#8217;s like Elizabeth Warren claiming to be an Indian, Halle Berry claiming to be a Black woman, or President Obama claiming to be an American &#8211; it&#8217;s a matter of desire, not evidence.<\/p>\n<p>joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The guy doesn&#8217;t look a day over 85&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park is a pretty peripatetic writer. \u00a0Some weeks, he sends me a couple emails on a couple of issues. Other weeks, I think he may write more stuff than I do. \u00a0And he doesn&#8217;t actually want to\u00a0write for this blog, per se; just likes to send &#8220;letters to the editor&#8221;. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36713,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions\/36713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}