{"id":2667,"date":"2009-03-28T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T17:21:49","slug":"aww-blue-commonwealth-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/03\/28\/aww-blue-commonwealth-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Aww, Blue Commonwealth Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Commonwealth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecommonwealth.com\/node\/7121\">collapsed under a pile of childishness, self-obsession, and pointlessness today<\/a>, and it appears to be done for.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a reader looking for an alternative, I suggest checking out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newdominionproject.com\/\">New Dominion Project<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan of the primary authors, and while there are still some rough edges in the site itself, I think that place has a good future.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a regular BC front-pager?\u00c2\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t go over to NDP.\u00c2\u00a0 Just sit and think about what a ridiculous mess you made, and go do penance by doing something useful, for once.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Like volunteering.\u00c2\u00a0 Offline.\u00c2\u00a0 For a while.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Through June, at least.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update:<\/strong> While I&#8217;m recommending places, I might as well toss in a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/theangrypotato.com\/\">the Angry Potato<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Funny and foul, but most of all &#8211; smart.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a combination I&#8217;ve seen anywhere else in VA online Dem politics (well, Blueweeds gets the funny and smart nod, but it gets totally outclassed in the foul dept.)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Commonwealth collapsed under a pile of childishness, self-obsession, and pointlessness today, and it appears to be done for.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a reader looking for an alternative, I suggest checking out the New Dominion Project.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan of the primary authors, and while there are still some rough edges in the site itself, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[159,66,497,502],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia","tag-blue-commonwealth","tag-democrats","tag-politics","tag-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}