{"id":10516,"date":"2010-05-01T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2010-05-02T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:40:13","slug":"not-lori-sturdevant-the-republican-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10516","title":{"rendered":"Not Lori Sturdevant: &#8220;The Republican Hangover&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The below is a contestant in the &#8220;Write Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s Next Column&#8221; contest, written by &#8220;Mr D&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republicans were on a 3-day ideological bender at the Convention Center this weekend, so it was perhaps appropriate that they selected a 2-time DWI offender, Tom Emmer, to carry their unsteady banner against the DFL-endorsed Margaret Anderson Kelliher. In their Tea Party-fueled fervor, it seemed that the GOP lost sight of the optics of nominating a twice-convicted drunk driver in the immediate aftermath of tragedies on Minnesota highways only the week before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below is a contestant in the &#8220;Write Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s Next Column&#8221; contest, written by &#8220;Mr D&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above. The Republicans were on a 3-day ideological bender at the Convention Center this weekend, so it was perhaps appropriate that they selected a 2-time DWI offender, Tom Emmer, to carry their unsteady banner against the DFL-endorsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","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=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10583,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}