{"id":3112,"date":"2008-08-19T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2008-08-19T20:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T01:17:57","slug":"and-the-1-sign-the-truckers-rolling-protest-was-designed-by-someone-from-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;And The #1 Sign The &#8220;Truckers Rolling Protest&#8221; Was Designed By Someone From Minneapolis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who has not the faintest clue about driving trucks or navigating Saint Paul, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/truckers-select\">take a look at the route<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/truckers-select\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"541\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/files\/minnesotaindependent\/truckers-select\/Picture_28.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many times can <em>you <\/em>say &#8220;Oh, My Gawd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Squeezing semis around the corner of Annapolis and Smith?  I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re pulling trailers or not, but even without a trailer&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Squeezing hundreds of trucks across 7th at Smith?  It&#8217;ll be like The Who at Riverfront Colisseum.  And then&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>Up Summit Hill?<\/em>  Straight up the steepest road grade in the Twin Cities?  Sure, the semis&#8217;ll make it, but it&#8217;s gonna sound like the Russians finally charged through the Fulda Gap with a thousand T72s!  And then&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A turn onto Dale at Summit?  That is one <em>narrow <\/em>street, especially if they&#8217;re talking about hauling trailers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I suppose anyone who could plan that could plan what <em>Minnesoros Independent <\/em>reporter Paul Schmelzer says they&#8217;re going to do (emphases added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The drive will <strong>begin at 11<\/strong> and make its way north through West St. Paul, crossing the Mississippi on the High Bridge at Smith Street. It&#8217;ll continue down Summit Avenue, north on Dale, east on University and then past the Capitol, before leaving on Robert Street &#8212; the closest the convoy will get <strong>to the RNC<\/strong> venue itself. <strong>By 4 pm<\/strong>, the truckers will join the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economichumanrights.org\/updates\/M4OL_schedule.html\">March for Our Lives<\/a>&#8221; with the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, which starts at <strong>Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the United Nations, 45th Street and 1st Avenue<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three hours to get to New York?<\/p>\n<p>Formidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who has not the faintest clue about driving trucks or navigating Saint Paul, take a look at the route. How many times can you say &#8220;Oh, My Gawd&#8221;. Squeezing semis around the corner of Annapolis and Smith? I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re pulling trailers or not, but even without a trailer&#8230; Squeezing hundreds of trucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}