{"id":33476,"date":"2013-01-16T05:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33476"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:20:30","slug":"rip-karl-bremer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33476","title":{"rendered":"RIP Karl Bremer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Bremer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_22380735\/obituary-stillwater-journalist-karl-bremer-dies\">passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bremer, the co-author of &#8220;The Madness of Michele Bachmann: A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate,&#8221; died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 15, at his house in Stillwater Township, from complications related to pancreatic cancer. He was 60.<\/p>\n<p>Bremer was a tenacious muckraker, an award-winning blogger and an avid photographer. His blog &#8212; Ripple in Stillwater &#8212; was named Best Local Blog by City Pages in 2012. He also received several Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists awards for best use of public records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d never speak ill of the dead. \u00a0Bremer had his friends and family. \u00a0I&#8217;m sorry for everyone&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p>But looking at all the references to Bremer as a &#8220;journalist&#8221;, I have to ask &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31976\">Brian Lambert going to ask to see his &#8220;badge?<\/a>&#8220;, retroactively?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Bremer passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer yesterday. Bremer, the co-author of &#8220;The Madness of Michele Bachmann: A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate,&#8221; died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 15, at his house in Stillwater Township, from complications related to pancreatic cancer. He was 60. Bremer was a tenacious muckraker, an award-winning blogger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,19],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-33476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-memoriam","tag-brian-lambert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476","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=33476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52986,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476\/revisions\/52986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}