{"id":1248,"date":"2007-08-27T04:55:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2007-08-26T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T21:06:41","slug":"fair-mess-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Fair Mess Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My NARN colleague and co-founder Chad the Elder has long found the State Fair’s “Seed Art” display to be a bottomless fount of material.<\/p>\n

This year, far from being an exception, is the mack daddy of ’em all<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Every year there is at least one entry that illustrates the seed and glue community’s seething hatred of the evil and oppressive right, and this year is no exception:<\/p>\n

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I especially love the twisted little scowl that crop artist Teresa Anderson has applied to Dick’s menacing visage.<\/p>\n

One can only imagine the thoughts that must have run through Teresa’s fragile little mind while she created this masterpiece, though I’m quite certain that the notion of hypocrisy didn’t pop up even once during the time it took her to glue down all of the tiny little seeds making up the word “divisiveness”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My favorite, of course, is the perennial (ha ha, I slay me) albeit very strange seed art picture of sportscaster Marv Albert testing a new set of dentures (inscrutably captioned “Senator Wellstone”) which has been a long-time fixture in the “Seed Art” display:<\/p>\n

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CORRECTION:\u00a0 I’m informed that the seed “art” picture is intended <\/em>to be of the late Senator Wellstone.\u00a0 Not Marv Albert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My NARN colleague and co-founder Chad the Elder has long found the State Fair’s “Seed Art” display to be a bottomless fount of material. This year, far from being an exception, is the mack daddy of ’em all: Every year there is at least one entry that illustrates the seed and glue community’s seething hatred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}