{"id":36305,"date":"2013-05-13T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2013-05-13T06:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:28:02","slug":"he-knows-what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36305","title":{"rendered":"He Knows What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton apparently thinks he was elected pope.<\/p>\n

I say that because of his style of interacting with the public; he pokes his nose out of his office, makes a pronouncment – “get this stadium deal done!” or “don’t shut down the government” or whatever it is he’s saying – and then disappears back into the office. \u00a0He couldn’t be any more pseudo-papal if he built a balcony outside his office overlooking the Capitol Mall.<\/p>\n

And that’s fine – he’s probably used to having absolute doctrinal authority in interpreting Alida Messinger’s revealed word, so it fits.<\/p>\n

But if there’s anything striking about Mark Dayton as governor, it’s his time management skills. \u00a0The guy just\u00a0knows what matters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So when he emerges from his sanctum to render a comment for his Praetorian Guard<\/del> the media, you know it’s about something that matters deeply for all Minnesotans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton apparently thinks he was elected pope. I say that because of his style of interacting with the public; he pokes his nose out of his office, makes a pronouncment – “get this stadium deal done!” or “don’t shut down the government” or whatever it is he’s saying – and then disappears back into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305","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=36305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36307,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions\/36307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}