{"id":23701,"date":"2011-10-19T07:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23701"},"modified":"2011-10-19T07:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:13:24","slug":"congratulations-are-in-order-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23701","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Are In Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/132117398.html\">retains two absurdly-safe Senate seats in special elections<\/a>\u00a0last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Brooklyn Center, registered nurse Chris Eaton won the seat formerly held by DFL Sen. Linda Scheid, who passed away this summer after a six-year battle with cancer. Rep. Jeff Hayden, an incumbent legislator who represents south Minneapolis, will take the Senate seat of DFL Sen. Linda Berglin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hayden and Eaton will now enjoy a one-to-four-year vacation, as they join Tom Bakk&#8217;s do-nothing Senate\u00a0DFL\u00a0caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL retains two absurdly-safe Senate seats in special elections\u00a0last night: In Brooklyn Center, registered nurse Chris Eaton won the seat formerly held by DFL Sen. Linda Scheid, who passed away this summer after a six-year battle with cancer. Rep. Jeff Hayden, an incumbent legislator who represents south Minneapolis, will take the Senate seat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701","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=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23704,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions\/23704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}