{"id":8878,"date":"2012-01-25T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2012-01-25T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T00:34:45","slug":"a-minion-of-the-great-orange-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Minion of the Great Orange Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blog\/pwoodford\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos diarist<\/a> (or, as my conservative friends will say, a minion of the Great Orange Satan).\u00a0 I started with a diary entry about the confiscation and banning of books in the Tucson Unified School District, put together from two recent posts here on Paul&#8217;s Thing (<a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8697\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8803\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blog\/pwoodford\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8881\" title=\"Click image to link\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/daily-kos-diary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/daily-kos-diary.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/daily-kos-diary-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/daily-kos-diary-450x382.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Only a few people read this blog.\u00a0 Tens of thousands read Daily Kos.\u00a0 I consider myself blessed if one reader per month leaves a comment on this blog.\u00a0 Within 24 hours, my first Daily Kos diary entry gathered 35, all of them interesting and intelligent &#8230; even the ones from people who disagree with me.<\/p>\n<p>This is still my blog, and this is where the stuff I write will first appear.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t plan to post many diary entries at Daily Kos &#8230; the Kos crowd isn&#8217;t likely to be interested in posts about airplanes, motorcycles, bicycling, dogs, or my personal life &#8230; but when I write about larger cultural, ethical, and political issues I will probably cross-post those entries to Daily Kos.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get there?\u00a0 I added a link to my Daily Kos Diary on the left sidebar.\u00a0 You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blog\/pwoodford\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to become a Daily Kos diarist (or, as my conservative friends will say, a minion of the Great Orange Satan).\u00a0 I started with a diary entry about the confiscation and banning of books in the Tucson Unified School District, put together from two recent posts here on Paul&#8217;s Thing (here and here). Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[537,538],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-daily-kos","tag-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}