{"id":11988,"date":"2010-07-12T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2010-07-12T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:28:18","slug":"emmer-a-family-man-and-a-fighter-twincities-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11988","title":{"rendered":"On Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#8217;ve bagged on the press for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11604\">hatchet-jobbery<\/a> as re the Emmer campaign, I&#8217;ll give well-deserved kudos to the <em>PiPress&#8217;<\/em> Bill Salisbury for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_15481879?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\">doing a fair, balanced piece that shows<\/a> the reasons that a lot of us gravitated to Emmer in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdote alert:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tom Emmer&#8217;s father was struggling to keep his Edina lumberyard afloat during a deep recession in the early &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>One day, his dad ordered his sons to put on their suits and ties and his wife and daughter to don dresses and climb into the family&#8217;s backyard swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sat in the pool, water up to here,&#8221; Emmer recently recalled, holding his hand to his chest, &#8220;and he took a picture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Christmastime, his father mailed the photo to friends and family with this message scrawled across the bottom: &#8220;The Emmers almost went under last year, but we&#8217;re coming out with a splash this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emmer, the Republican-endorsed candidate for Minnesota governor, said his father&#8217;s declaration symbolized how he learned to face adversity and obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to take responsibility for those situations, stand up tall and make the best of it,&#8221; the three-term state representative said during a late-June campaign bus ride across southern Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#8217;ve bagged on the press for their hatchet-jobbery as re the Emmer campaign, I&#8217;ll give well-deserved kudos to the PiPress&#8217; Bill Salisbury for\u00a0doing a fair, balanced piece that shows the reasons that a lot of us gravitated to Emmer in the first place. Anecdote alert: Tom Emmer&#8217;s father was struggling to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","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=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11991,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}