{"id":31098,"date":"2012-10-16T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31098"},"modified":"2012-10-16T06:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:17:47","slug":"a-few-hundred-of-our-closest-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31098","title":{"rendered":"A Few Hundred Of Our Closest Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the history of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Debate Parties are among the most legendary events.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago (!) at the Minneapolis Hilton, they set out 100 chairs and one porta-bar in a ballroom with a jumbotron to watch the final debate between Dubya and Kerry. 700 turned out; it was the first time we on the NARN ever figured we had an audience. \u00a0It was amazing. \u00a0It was also the first time we met many of our audience regulars, including our latest NARN colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/bradley1969.blogspot.com\/\">Brad Carlson<\/a>! \u00a0It was an amazing evening.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, at the Biden\/Palin debate at the late great Trocadero? \u00a0We drew close to 500, which was a completely full house. \u00a0It was a fantastic night.<\/p>\n<p>And Monday night, we&#8217;ll be doing it again!<\/p>\n<p>Join us at the Blue Fox in Shoreview on Monday, 10\/22 for the final Presidential Debate of this season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;q=blue+fox+shoreview+mn&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=blue+fox&amp;hnear=0x52b3284144d1f63d:0xe1b163efa743d156,Shoreview,+MN&amp;cid=0,0,18421175251889812233&amp;t=m&amp;iwloc=A&amp;ll=45.057011,-93.147841&amp;spn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;q=blue+fox+shoreview+mn&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=blue+fox&amp;hnear=0x52b3284144d1f63d:0xe1b163efa743d156,Shoreview,+MN&amp;cid=0,0,18421175251889812233&amp;t=m&amp;iwloc=A&amp;ll=45.057011,-93.147841&amp;spn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Brad Carlson and I will be MCing, and doing a Q and A before and after. \u00a0There&#8217;ll be some special prices, and the food is really really good!<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; before the debate, there&#8217;ll be a silent auction to benefit the Kurt BIlls for Senate campaign. \u00a0Come on out and bring a few bucks to benefit Bills, and stay for the party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the history of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Debate Parties are among the most legendary events. Eight years ago (!) at the Minneapolis Hilton, they set out 100 chairs and one porta-bar in a ballroom with a jumbotron to watch the final debate between Dubya and Kerry. 700 turned out; it was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31098","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=31098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31101,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31098\/revisions\/31101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}