{"id":2874,"date":"2008-07-15T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2008-07-15T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T18:01:36","slug":"breathless-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Breathless Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Barkley &#8211; one of the hands that controlled the wires attached to <strike>former governor<\/strike> DFL-lite sock-puppet Jesse Ventura &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/25464429.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:2\">might just run to get &#8220;his&#8221; Senate seat back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dean Barkley, who briefly served in the Senate himself, said this morning that he plans to file for the office this afternoon as an Independence Party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>That is, assuming Ventura sticks to his announcement Monday night that he&#8217;s not running, a statement he made with the qualifier that he&#8217;ll change his mind if God speaks to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just knowing him, he still might show up,&#8221; Barkley said. &#8220;That&#8217;s Ventura &#8212; anyone who&#8217;s been around him awhile knows he never says anything without thinking it through. You can be sure he thought that line through.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just like you can be sure he was his own man as governor.<\/p>\n<p>Go, Dean!\u00a0 Go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Barkley &#8211; one of the hands that controlled the wires attached to former governor DFL-lite sock-puppet Jesse Ventura &#8211; might just run to get &#8220;his&#8221; Senate seat back: Dean Barkley, who briefly served in the Senate himself, said this morning that he plans to file for the office this afternoon as an Independence Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}