{"id":12757,"date":"2010-08-18T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2010-08-18T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:41:47","slug":"mayor-of-the-mob-nominations-are-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12757","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Of The MOB: Nominations Are Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a solid two years since the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers last elected a Mayor. \u00a0Since Joe &#8220;Learned Foot&#8221; Tucci pulled the plug on <em>Kool Aid Report<\/em>, the lights at the MOB Secretary of State&#8217;s office have been off, the power bill&#8217;s gone unpaid, and the screen door is banging in the breeze &#8211; so nobody&#8217;s had time <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/jerkweed-just-caught-wind.html\">to hold the traditional election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3192\/2961181045_04c1e2082e.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Seal of the Mayor of the MOB\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seal of the Mayor of the MOB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The incumbent mayor, Johnny Roosh &#8211; who writes for this blog &#8211; has served, <em>de facto<\/em>, two terms as Mayor. \u00a0It&#8217;s time to oil up the wheels of democracy and take them for a spin.<\/p>\n<p>As such, I have appointed myself Secretary of State for Life (replacing the former SOSFL, Joe Tucci &#8211; don&#8217;t ask), and I have opened nominations for Mayor of the MOB, 2010 edition!<\/p>\n<p>Nominations first. \u00a0Then debates. \u00a0Then denials. \u00a0Then &#8211; mid-next-week, the election itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a solid two years since the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers last elected a Mayor. \u00a0Since Joe &#8220;Learned Foot&#8221; Tucci pulled the plug on Kool Aid Report, the lights at the MOB Secretary of State&#8217;s office have been off, the power bill&#8217;s gone unpaid, and the screen door is banging in the breeze &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","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=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12758,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions\/12758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}