{"id":89586,"date":"2025-05-06T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89586"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:41:16","slug":"to-paraphrase-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89586","title":{"rendered":"To Paraphrase Whitney Houston&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;I believe the children are our greatest probleeeeeeemmmmm&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Hope Walz uncorks on the most insidious form of &#8220;privilege&#8221;:<\/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\">Tim Walz\u2019s daughter goes on a bizarre rant about \u2018running,\u2019says her dad told her \u201crunning is a privilege\u201d and it\u2019s causing climate change and destroying the planet.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8D8I7pAGjh\">pic.twitter.com\/8D8I7pAGjh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Defiant L\u2019s (@DefiantLs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiantLs\/status\/1918130777877037268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget for a moment that barefoot running is kind of a fad these days:<\/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\">50 miles <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/barefoot?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#barefoot<\/a> at the Hainesport 12-hour.  Not very fast, but steady.  No food until mile 38.  Ultra\/marathon #97 of which Barefoot #8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b6jlCVJ8SI\">pic.twitter.com\/b6jlCVJ8SI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Barefoot Ken (@Long_Brown_Path) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Long_Brown_Path\/status\/1411646912151932928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget the corn-fed American runners.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abebe_Bikila\">Abebe Bikila<\/a>, the legendary Olympic marathoner who&#8230;grew up dirt poor, trained barefoot, and was one of the greatest marathon runners ever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\">A marathon barefoot? \ud83e\udd14<br><br>Abebe Bikila proved greatness doesn\u2019t come with gear. Just sheer will. \ud83e\udd47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BoFCwJOD99\">pic.twitter.com\/BoFCwJOD99<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1913812369370989026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, nobody&#8217;s ever accused Hope Walz of being an intellectual titan.   Nobody expects it.  Seeing her parents, one would be mad to even think about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you just know she&#8217;s going to be running for office soon, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;I believe the children are our greatest probleeeeeeemmmmm&#8221;. Hope Walz uncorks on the most insidious form of &#8220;privilege&#8221;: Forget for a moment that barefoot running is kind of a fad these days: Forget the corn-fed American runners.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s talk about Abebe Bikila, the legendary Olympic marathoner who&#8230;grew up dirt poor, trained barefoot, and was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586","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=89586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89587,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586\/revisions\/89587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}