{"id":3243,"date":"2010-07-21T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2010-07-21T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T22:52:54","slug":"thats-more-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s More Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous conservatives, to their credit, are coming out and apologizing to Shirley Sherrod and admitting they were wrong.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/21\/should-shirley-sherrod-get-her-job-back\/\">Morrissey<\/a> has done so; as has Jonah Goldberg and others.<\/p>\n<p>I post this not because of any I told you so mentality because I&#8217;m hoping &#8212; maybe against hope &#8212; that this incident will inject a little bit of skepticism into the Right (and Left) Wing Outrage Machines.  Character assassination is just too easy in the Age of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>(I also note on the Hot Air link that more than half the readers think Sherrod should get her job back.  For Sherrod to get that much support from a blog as right wing as Hot Air is remarkable.  And encouraging.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous conservatives, to their credit, are coming out and apologizing to Shirley Sherrod and admitting they were wrong. Morrissey has done so; as has Jonah Goldberg and others. I post this not because of any I told you so mentality because I&#8217;m hoping &#8212; maybe against hope &#8212; that this incident will inject a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s More Like It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Qj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}