{"id":698,"date":"2010-12-30T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T20:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2011-11-14T00:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:32:59","slug":"indeed-style-link-ken-at-popehat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Indeed&#8221;-style link to Ken at Popehat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2010\/12\/30\/the-first-rule-of-the-war-on-drugs-is-dont-talk-about-the-war-on-drugs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popehat+%28Popehat%29\">The First Rule of the War on Drugs is DON&#8217;T TALK ABOUT THE WAR ON DRUGS:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes people write me and ask why the hell I\u2019m not writing about story X, because it\u2019s \u201cright up your alley.\u201d Usually this means that story X is about free speech, or nanny statism, or police abuse, or (not infrequently) some species of mordantly self-involved douchebaggery that readers associate with me.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the answer is that I\u2019m too busy. Often the answer is that I can\u2019t think of an angle on the story that will allow me to say something about it that hasn\u2019t been said better already by smarter people, and I am not in the mood for a mere <em>heh indeed<\/em>-style link.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes the answer is that the story inspires a white-hot impotent fury that would leave me unable to write anything but a string of epithets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2010\/12\/30\/the-first-rule-of-the-war-on-drugs-is-dont-talk-about-the-war-on-drugs\/\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Rule of the War on Drugs is DON&#8217;T TALK ABOUT THE WAR ON DRUGS: Sometimes people write me and ask why the hell I\u2019m not writing about story X, because it\u2019s \u201cright up your alley.\u201d Usually this means that story X is about free speech, or nanny statism, or police abuse, or (not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-at-popehat","category-war-on-drugs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}