{"id":10530,"date":"2010-05-01T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2010-05-02T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:41:39","slug":"not-lori-sturdevant-the-wind-is-blowing-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"Not Lori Sturdevant: &#8220;The Wind Is Blowing Left&#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;Golfdoc50&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Dylan famously wrote \u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d If the Bard of Hibbing and 4th Street had been in the gallery at the Minneapolis Convention Center he might have noticed which direction the tea leaves were blowing when Tom Emmer tried to generate enough wind shear to dispel the anxieties about his checkered personal history. Perhaps those with short memories won\u2019t shudder at the similarities between Emmer and Jesse Ventura, but citizens concerned about the continuation of basic government services in the next biennium will surely sit up and take notice.<br \/>\nThe gray suited Republicans and their ladies in fur probably didn\u2019t notice the tattered looking homeless hugging the curbs of downtown as they pulled up in their limos in front of the Convention Center, but the contrast between the smug and the unlucky was never more obvious.<br \/>\nHow do you choose between a country club attending suburban elitist and neo-populist from the outer exurban ring? Closing your eyes to the plight of those clinging to the safety net that is the only thing between them and sleeping on street grates or under bridges every night.<br \/>\nAs I was pulling my weekly one hour shift ladling soup at a homeless shelter, one of the regulars there, a toothless schizophrenic veteran tugged at my sleeve and gave me one of those looks. The kind that all great journalists expect to see when they feel the weight of the world compress their ASICS jogging shoes. Illuminating the self absorbed snotty Republican world view isn\u2019t pretty, but somebody has to do it!<\/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;Golfdoc50&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above. Bob Dylan famously wrote \u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d If the Bard of Hibbing and 4th Street had been in the gallery at the Minneapolis Convention Center he might have [&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-10530","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\/10530","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=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10587,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}