{"id":3200,"date":"2008-09-01T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2008-09-01T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T13:08:28","slug":"true-north-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"True North!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago today that True North launched.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eckernet.com\/images\/TNDateTeaser.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original idea came from Derek &#8220;Chief&#8221; Brigham, Andy &#8220;Teh Mayer&#8221; Applikowski, Lassie,\u00a0 Doctor Jonz, Kevin Ecker and a small group of other center-right regional bloggers; provide a clearinghouse for not only the best center-right alt-media in the region, but a place to coordinate activism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freedomdogs.com\/images\/stories\/TNBlue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big job, and &#8211; unlike most of the big institutional leftyblogs like the <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221; <\/em>, the <em>MNPost <\/em>and the late, unlamented <em>Daily Mold<\/em>, it&#8217;s a labor of love; there&#8217;s no money going in or coming out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/wp-content\/images\/LookTrueNorthMed.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But we were, as Elwood Blues memorably put it, &#8220;on a mission from God&#8221;.\u00a0 And we still are; one of our big original reasons to exist was to provide alt-media coverage not only of the convention, but of the convention&#8217;s protesters.\u00a0 Oh, yeah &#8211; and the election, too.<\/p>\n<p>The first year&#8217;s been a great run!\u00a0 Congrats, all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago today that True North launched. The original idea came from Derek &#8220;Chief&#8221; Brigham, Andy &#8220;Teh Mayer&#8221; Applikowski, Lassie,\u00a0 Doctor Jonz, Kevin Ecker and a small group of other center-right regional bloggers; provide a clearinghouse for not only the best center-right alt-media in the region, but a place to coordinate activism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}