{"id":11290,"date":"2012-03-01T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2012-03-01T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T02:35:14","slug":"perhaps-the-least-insightful-obituary-of-andrew-breitbart-youll-read-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=11290","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the Least Insightful Obituary of Andrew Breitbart You&#8217;ll Read Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already read about <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/lsolov\/2012\/03\/01\/draft\/\">Andrew Breitbart dying<\/a> at the stupifyingly young age of 43 in a dozen places now. And despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6497\">Dwight suggesting<\/a> that I&#8217;d have a lively discussion going, I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to say that hasn&#8217;t been  before, and better, by far more famous bloggers than myself. I never met the man, but by all accounts he was a whirlwind of activity. And just as he created a blogging empire (Big Government, Big Hollywood, etc.) almost out of thin air, he wore a dizzying array of hats: reporter, agent provocateur, entrepreneur, blogger, media potentate, editor, and perhaps the greatest Internet Troll of all time. He perfected the &#8220;aggressive&#8221; in passive aggressive, both uncovering the malfeasance of the left, as well as baiting them with just enough rope to let them hang themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt we shall see his like again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already read about Andrew Breitbart dying at the stupifyingly young age of 43 in a dozen places now. And despite Dwight suggesting that I&#8217;d have a lively discussion going, I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to say that hasn&#8217;t been before, and better, by far more famous bloggers than myself. I never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[434,2860,81],"class_list":["post-11290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-watch","tag-andrew-breitbart","tag-media-watch","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11294,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions\/11294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}