{"id":1996,"date":"2008-01-21T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2008-01-21T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:45:08","slug":"cave-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Cave-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that makes being a Republican in the city so interesting is that the entire place is such a <em>tabula rasa<\/em>; everywhere you go, there are people and institutions whose entire notion of who and what a Republican, and a conservative <em>is <\/em>is entirely formed by slanders they&#8217;ve gotten from the Tic media, their unions, their tic parents, or whatever.\u00a0 It makes every victory you win (and those are measured by individual people in Saint Paul, not by offices or races or percetages of representation) all the sweeter.\u00a0 And there <em>are <\/em>victories.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that makes being a Republican in a place like Saint Paul so enervating is that too many Republicans &#8211; as opposed to conservatives &#8211; are like the guys in Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s <em>Born in the USA<\/em>; like dogs who&#8217;ve been beaten too much, who spend half their lives just covering up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A little bird has told me a very disturbing story that, if true and in context, would indicate that <em>way <\/em>too many of my fellow inner-city Republicans are the latter; if true, the battle for the cities is going to get <em>a lot<\/em> harder before it gets easier.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that makes being a Republican in the city so interesting is that the entire place is such a tabula rasa; everywhere you go, there are people and institutions whose entire notion of who and what a Republican, and a conservative is is entirely formed by slanders they&#8217;ve gotten from the Tic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}