{"id":27825,"date":"2012-05-09T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27825"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:22:54","slug":"open-letter-to-the-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27825","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To The Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Minnesota Vikings<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg &#8211; Bears Fan<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Your Fiscal Plans<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Wilf,<\/p>\n<p>if having &#8220;Mitch Berg&#8221; come to your <del>new bit of political swag<\/del> stadium and spend money on user fees, or going to some pull tab machine to lose a pre-planned amount of money to <del>pay for the stadium <\/del>improvements to your investment on the public dime is in any part of your plans, please subtract from your plans appropriately. \u00a0Not going to happen. \u00a0You will not see one voluntary dime from me.<\/p>\n<p>(I was going to add &#8220;If any of my legislators vote for this bit of legislative larceny, I&#8217;ll work tirelessly to remove their lame asses&#8221;, but I think you know I&#8217;m &#8220;represented&#8221; by Sandy Pappas and Rhea Montgomery, so I&#8217;ll be working tirelessly against them anyway).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be at Alary&#8217;s with the Bears fans. \u00a0That&#8217;s a <em>private sector <\/em>business.<\/p>\n<p>Unless <em>they <\/em>demand money from the state to pay for improvements to <em>their <\/em>real estate. \u00a0 Then I&#8217;ll tube them too.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings may suck, they may in the Super Bowl. \u00a0But you, Zygi, will never voluntarily get a dime from me.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Minnesota Vikings From: \u00a0Mitch Berg &#8211; Bears Fan Re: \u00a0Your Fiscal Plans Dear Mr. Wilf, if having &#8220;Mitch Berg&#8221; come to your new bit of political swag stadium and spend money on user fees, or going to some pull tab machine to lose a pre-planned amount of money to pay for the stadium improvements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123,77],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-27825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes","category-the-rare-sports-post","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825","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=27825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27827,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions\/27827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}