{"id":14904,"date":"2010-11-02T04:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T09:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2010-11-01T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:46:54","slug":"morning-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14904","title":{"rendered":"Morning In America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 years ago, when I was working at my first country-western radio job, about the time the early eighties recession was at its deepest, I first heard this Merle Haggard song. It was in the “recurrent” bin – music the station had played for a good six months before I started – but never quite left the rotation.<\/p>\n

And it captured the spirit of 1980 and 1981 was well as any song of the era…:
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…and really, life in Minnesota, today, as well.<\/p>\n

And if the Republicans sweep the nation? \u00a0Especially if Emmer wins?<\/p>\n

I haven’t felt like that since 1991 – when the Berlin Wall fell.<\/p>\n

And nothing captured that era better than this ditty:<\/p>\n

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Watching the nation wake up from that Obama buzz won’t be quite <\/em>as fun as watching the USSR gurgle down the drain…
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…but this is the battle we’ve been dealt.<\/p>\n

I’m game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28 years ago, when I was working at my first country-western radio job, about the time the early eighties recession was at its deepest, I first heard this Merle Haggard song. It was in the “recurrent” bin – music the station had played for a good six months before I started – but never quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-history-and-its-making","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904","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=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}