{"id":205,"date":"2006-12-13T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/13\/evening-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T21:25:51","slug":"evening-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Evening The Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Senator_Tim_Johnson_reportedly_suffers_stroke_1213.html\">suffered an apparent stroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Johnson were to pass away, or be forced to retire, the US Constitution delegates the task of appointing a replacement to South Dakota lawmakers, who in turn, often turn that task over to the Governor. The Governor of that state, Mike Rounds, is a Republican, and both houses of the state legislature are dominated by Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prayers, naturally, for Senator Johnson.\u00a0 We&#8217;d rather get the Senate at the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has suffered an apparent stroke. If Johnson were to pass away, or be forced to retire, the US Constitution delegates the task of appointing a replacement to South Dakota lawmakers, who in turn, often turn that task over to the Governor. The Governor of that state, Mike Rounds, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}