{"id":12471,"date":"2010-08-06T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:31:59","slug":"12471","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12471","title":{"rendered":"Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Demos may need more than a great web ad to beat Keith Ellison in the Fifth District. He&#8217;ll probably need the National Guard.  The Fifth, aka &#8220;Berkeley on the Prairie&#8221;, is one of those districts where the DFL could endorse a package of pork chops and get 50% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; if great ads won elections, Demos could start measuring the drapes in Ellison&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" 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\/S9LIOUx0-cU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S9LIOUx0-cU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There is no more thankless job in the world than running for CD5 (or CD4, across the river, which is just as bad).<\/p>\n<p>But if Republicans in the city couldn&#8217;t hope for miracles, we couldn&#8217;t hope for much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Demos may need more than a great web ad to beat Keith Ellison in the Fifth District. He&#8217;ll probably need the National Guard. The Fifth, aka &#8220;Berkeley on the Prairie&#8221;, is one of those districts where the DFL could endorse a package of pork chops and get 50% of the vote. Still &#8211; if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,17,13],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minneapolis","category-republicans","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","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=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23845,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions\/23845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}