{"id":27999,"date":"2012-05-17T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27999"},"modified":"2012-05-17T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:04:54","slug":"heard-in-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27999","title":{"rendered":"Heard In Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this via email early this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scuttlebutt from a trusted source who works inside AFSCME Minnesota Council 5 states that there are interesting developments in the Wisconsin AFSCME. Ever since passage and signing of the &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; laws in our neighboring state to the east, about 80% of those AFSCME members have &#8220;opted-out&#8221; of paying union dues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from a source I trust on these things, who is &#8211; as noted above &#8211; relaying third-hand information.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll throw this out there; anyone else hearing anything from the Wisconsin unions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this via email early this morning: Scuttlebutt from a trusted source who works inside AFSCME Minnesota Council 5 states that there are interesting developments in the Wisconsin AFSCME. Ever since passage and signing of the &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; laws in our neighboring state to the east, about 80% of those AFSCME members have &#8220;opted-out&#8221; 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":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999","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=27999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28001,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27999\/revisions\/28001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}