{"id":10318,"date":"2010-04-30T06:10:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2010-04-25T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T20:17:20","slug":"around-the-mob-policy-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10318","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Policy Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been meandering my way through this very long series of Minnesota Organization of Bloggers blogs, I’ve been skipping blogs that haven’ t published any posts in sixty days or more.\u00a0 A guy’s gotta know his limits.<\/p>\n

I’m making an exception for John “Policy Guy” LaPlante, whose Policy Guy <\/em>blog has been a fairly sporadic thing for a few years now, and is at the moment offline due to technical issues.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, a little bird tells me that Policy Guy <\/em>might be making a comeback soon.\u00a0 Possible.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s busy with work and kids and all the usual stuff that makes blogging such an expendable hobby for so many people – but there might be hope.<\/p>\n

This is a good thing; John brings the local blogosphere something that it needs; a blogger than writes about policy and politics from a rigorous academic perspective – but yet makes it interesting enough to want to read regularly.<\/p>\n

So I’m writing this to hope it helps build a critical mass of interest to get things up and running.<\/p>\n

Back to our regular blogs next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been meandering my way through this very long series of Minnesota Organization of Bloggers blogs, I’ve been skipping blogs that haven’ t published any posts in sixty days or more.\u00a0 A guy’s gotta know his limits. I’m making an exception for John “Policy Guy” LaPlante, whose Policy Guy blog has been a fairly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}