{"id":26804,"date":"2012-03-12T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26804"},"modified":"2012-03-12T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:49:46","slug":"shearing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26804","title":{"rendered":"Shearing Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One upside of having a news site like the <em>MInnPost<\/em>: \u00a0while they are fashionably center-left, they are not completely in bed with the Sports-Industrial Complex. \u00a0 Since they don&#8217;t &#8220;sell&#8221; any more &#8220;copies&#8221; on Vikings game days, they can actually report, y&#8217;know, facts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politics-policy\/2012\/03\/five-things-theyre-not-telling-you-about-vikings-stadium\">Like this bit by Marlys Harris<\/a> on the top five things they&#8217;re not telling you about the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Although it may be telling that they ignore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26593\">the two parts that are directly traceable to the DFL<\/a> &#8211; RT Rybak&#8217;s unfulfillable promise re the Minneapolis sales tax, and the complete fantasy behind Tom Bakk&#8217;s gambling revenue proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the more reporting people do on this mass-fleecing, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One upside of having a news site like the MInnPost: \u00a0while they are fashionably center-left, they are not completely in bed with the Sports-Industrial Complex. \u00a0 Since they don&#8217;t &#8220;sell&#8221; any more &#8220;copies&#8221; on Vikings game days, they can actually report, y&#8217;know, facts. Like this bit by Marlys Harris on the top five things they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-26804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26804","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=26804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26806,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26804\/revisions\/26806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}