{"id":25009,"date":"2011-12-22T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2011-12-21T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T23:29:48","slug":"a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25009","title":{"rendered":"A Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_2_0_16_132450480753440\">\n<p>President Hanson,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Mitchell Berg. I&#8217;m a modestly-successful blogger (www.shotinthedark.info), covering Minnesota politics and current events from a broadly conservative viewpoint; .think Locke, Buckley and P. J. O&#8217;Rourke, rather than Larry the Cable Guy. As a parent of two college-age kids, I write a lot about education; I have been an occasional critic of Hamline&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>I am also the host of a radio program &#8211; &#8220;The Northern Alliance Radio Network&#8221;, along with national blogger Ed Morrissey. We&#8217;re heard in the Twin Cities every Saturday on WWTC-AM 1280, and nationally via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a neighbor, living a block off the Hamline campus.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to request the honor of an interview with you, via any medium convenient to you, regarding both the Tom Emmer fiasco, as well as about Hamline&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;diversity&#8221; about which you wrote in the Star\/Tribune this week. This interview could be&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on the radio show, on any Saturday you&#8217;d be available<\/li>\n<li>in person, at Hamline, at any time convenient to you<\/li>\n<li>failing either of those, via a list of emailed questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I (and Ed, if you choose to come on the show) are acerbic but civil and respectful interviwers; I submit for your reference our interviews with R.T. Rybak, Dane Smith, David Brauer, Rochelle Olson and Erik Black as evidence that we seek a useful dialogue rather than to throw plates at our opposition.<\/p>\n<p>So it would be great pleasure to have the chance to have a dialogue about academic diversity, in general and at Hamline University.<\/p>\n<p>I will eagerly await your response.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hanson, My name is Mitchell Berg. I&#8217;m a modestly-successful blogger (www.shotinthedark.info), covering Minnesota politics and current events from a broadly conservative viewpoint; .think Locke, Buckley and P. J. O&#8217;Rourke, rather than Larry the Cable Guy. As a parent of two college-age kids, I write a lot about education; I have been an occasional critic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-narn","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009","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=25009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}