{"id":1262,"date":"2007-09-07T05:35:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T14:29:45","slug":"a-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Minnesota conservative bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;catid=44:taxation&#038;id=240:special-session-governor-just-say-no&#038;Itemid=75\">intensely oppose the idea of a special session<\/a>; they want to hold Pawlenty to the letter of his &#8220;No New Taxes&#8221; pledge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/\">Others<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/08\/25\/mde-on-the-radio-live-from-the-state-fair\/\">can see some political benefit<\/a> to Pawlenty calling a limited special session and looking all statesmanly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to suggest a compromise; have the special session (limited <em>solely <\/em>to rebuilding the bridge), contingent upon one condition:\u00a0 force Larry Pogemiller to bark like a dog.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;d make <em>everyone <\/em>happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Minnesota conservative bloggers intensely oppose the idea of a special session; they want to hold Pawlenty to the letter of his &#8220;No New Taxes&#8221; pledge. Others can see some political benefit to Pawlenty calling a limited special session and looking all statesmanly. I&#8217;d like to suggest a compromise; have the special session (limited solely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}