{"id":814,"date":"2007-05-13T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/a-break-from-the-norm\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T18:38:51","slug":"a-break-from-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"A Break From The Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a very, very idealistic person.\u00a0 And I’ve got a sentimental streak wider than my shoulders.<\/p>\n

But I’ve bred a healthy – mostly – streak of cynicism into myself when it comes to the media, to pop culture, to public society.\u00a0 With people as individuals, I trust but verify. With most public personae, I distrust and, if debunking fails, might be amenable to discussion.<\/p>\n

So it took me a whole reading of Nick Coleman’s mother’s day column<\/a> before I was able to tell my internal cynic to take a break, grab a drink, come back in a few.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to quote it.\u00a0 Read it, and if you have an angle on it – well, you know what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a very, very idealistic person.\u00a0 And I’ve got a sentimental streak wider than my shoulders. But I’ve bred a healthy – mostly – streak of cynicism into myself when it comes to the media, to pop culture, to public society.\u00a0 With people as individuals, I trust but verify. With most public personae, I distrust […]<\/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-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}