{"id":17061,"date":"2011-01-06T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:51:35","slug":"off-on-the-right-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17061","title":{"rendered":"Off On The Right Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was briefly at the Capitol yesterday for the signing of the Medicaid payoff bill. \u00a0It was terribly crowded, and I could only get as far as the outer lobby; it was that crowded.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the speeches, a baby started squalling.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Grow in the MinnPost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2011\/01\/05\/24615\/amid_a_mornings_chaos_gov_mark_dayton_calms_the_crowd_--_and_even_welcomes_protesters\">takes up the narrative<\/a>, noting that Democracy is noisy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was, it should be noted, especially noisy from the lungs of one toddler, who screamed throughout part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His mother couldn&#8217;t get him out of the room,&#8221; Brase said.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how tightly packed the room was, and how unwilling many were to even make room for a mom and screaming kid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just <em>any <\/em>baby; it was the youngest MOBster, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebabymoose.blogspot.com\">Baby Moose<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was briefly at the Capitol yesterday for the signing of the Medicaid payoff bill. \u00a0It was terribly crowded, and I could only get as far as the outer lobby; it was that crowded. Toward the end of the speeches, a baby started squalling. Doug Grow in the MinnPost takes up the narrative, noting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","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=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49820,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions\/49820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}