{"id":24916,"date":"2011-12-16T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24916"},"modified":"2011-12-16T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:07:35","slug":"fearless-predictions-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24916","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few for today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s virtually inevitable<\/strong>\u00a0that <em>some <\/em>lefty commentator &#8211; probably a leftyblogger, but very possibly a media commentator &#8211; will blame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/135699813.html\">yesterday&#8217;s shooting in Grand Marais<\/a> on Minnesota&#8217;s concealed carry law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s also pretty much a lock <\/strong>that the Strib and MInnPost&#8217;s columnist stables will paint the departure of Amy Koch as Senate Majority Leader as &#8220;proof that conservatives are becoming too unruly and powerful&#8221;, notwithstanding the fact that Koch is a conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few for today. It&#8217;s virtually inevitable\u00a0that some lefty commentator &#8211; probably a leftyblogger, but very possibly a media commentator &#8211; will blame yesterday&#8217;s shooting in Grand Marais on Minnesota&#8217;s concealed carry law. It&#8217;s also pretty much a lock that the Strib and MInnPost&#8217;s columnist stables will paint the departure of Amy Koch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,2,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","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=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}