{"id":28611,"date":"2012-06-22T06:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28611"},"modified":"2012-06-22T06:29:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:29:41","slug":"but-hell-still-be-mayor-of-minneapolis-in-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28611","title":{"rendered":"But He&#8217;ll Still Be &#8220;Mayor Of Minneapolis&#8221; In Our Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/political-agenda\/2012\/06\/minneapolis-mayor-rybak-mayor-world-vote-early-and-often\">nominated for the &#8220;World Mayor&#8221; context<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based in London, the [World Mayor] group says it is an &#8220;international think tank for local government, organizes the World Mayor Project and awards the World Mayor Prize.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Rybak wins, I think it&#8217;d be just deliciously ironic if <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2012\/03\/downtown_minneapolis_rocked_by_five_violent_flash_mobs_attacks_during_last_two_months.php\">a flash mob descended on the award ceremony and robbed and beat everyone there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the award itself? \u00a0Looking at the field&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rybak is one of five mayors in the North America category.<\/p>\n<p>The other N.A. nominees are:<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9gis Labeaume of\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec City, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of\u00a0Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>John F Cook of\u00a0El Paso<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker of\u00a0Newark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;it looks like it might be as accurately tired &#8220;Toilet Mayor&#8221;. \u00a0Which may be why I&#8217;m not in public relations. \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak has been nominated for the &#8220;World Mayor&#8221; context: Based in London, the [World Mayor] group says it is an &#8220;international think tank for local government, organizes the World Mayor Project and awards the World Mayor Prize.&#8221; If Rybak wins, I think it&#8217;d be just deliciously ironic if a flash mob descended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28611","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=28611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28614,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28611\/revisions\/28614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}