{"id":60619,"date":"2016-10-18T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60619"},"modified":"2016-10-16T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:57:08","slug":"colin-kaepernick-conservative-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60619","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick, Conservative Hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first; I don&#8217;t really care if people stand for the national anthem or not. \u00a0 I do, personally; it&#8217;s out of respect for what this nation\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>be, moreso than what it is. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a free country &#8211; and that involves freedom to be contrary. \u00a0 As well as to deal with the consequences of being a contrarian.<\/p>\n<p>One of the consequences? \u00a0The TV-viewing public &#8211; at least the ones that watch NFL football, the ones between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre &#8211; are <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/10\/11\/nfl-ratings-tanking-in-wake-of-leftist-moral-exhibitionism\/\">not amused by NFL players&#8217; &#8211; and the NFL&#8217;s &#8211; lurch to the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for this, we conservatives need to thank Kaepernick. \u00a0He may be the pinhole leak in the dam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/nfl-ratings-plunge-could-spell-doom-for-traditional-tv\/2016\/10\/14\/a7a23dc2-915f-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html\">that <em>miiight just<\/em>\u00a0lead to the final collapse of mainstream TV<\/a> &#8211; including the business model that keeps our corroded, corrupt mainstream TV news clique &#8211; afloat.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; for this, Colin Kaepernick, I thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first; I don&#8217;t really care if people stand for the national anthem or not. \u00a0 I do, personally; it&#8217;s out of respect for what this nation\u00a0should\u00a0be, moreso than what it is. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a free country &#8211; and that involves freedom to be contrary. \u00a0 As well as to deal with the consequences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619","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=60619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60620,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60619\/revisions\/60620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}