{"id":11689,"date":"2010-06-30T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T11:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2010-06-30T06:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T11:53:38","slug":"one-for-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11689","title":{"rendered":"One For The Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franken, in national news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/al-franken-caught-dozing-off-during-kagan-testimony\/\">dozes off during the Kagan hearings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every few years, we, as Americans, get to sit back and literally watch history being made in front of our very eyes. We get to see our country\u2019s future being written. We get to- Oh my God! Is<strong> Al Franken<\/strong> falling asleep? He totally is!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BVyuB-cy_wY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BVyuB-cy_wY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>During\u00a0<strong>Elena Kagan\u2019s<\/strong> opening remarks today, Sen. Franken had a bit of a hard time keeping his eyes open. In his defense, I\u2019m sure many people who watch the confirmation hearings felt the same way. Seriously, do these people know how to blather, or what? Still though, you\u2019d think Franken, as a graduate of live television, would know better than to nod off with so many cameras around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Minnesota, you chose well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, DFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franken, in national news,\u00a0dozes off during the Kagan hearings: Every few years, we, as Americans, get to sit back and literally watch history being made in front of our very eyes. We get to see our country\u2019s future being written. We get to- Oh my God! Is Al Franken falling asleep? He totally is! During\u00a0Elena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","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=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}