{"id":41132,"date":"2014-01-14T05:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41132"},"modified":"2014-01-14T05:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:44:28","slug":"lipstick-on-a-pig-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41132","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick On A Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gun grab movement in Minnesota is going to try to be a liiiiiiiittle bit more subtle this year.<\/p>\n<p>Look for more carefully-bearded ELCA ministers, and less Jane Kay. \u00a0Less magazine size, more &#8220;responsibility&#8221; and &#8220;safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN &#8211; the astroturf gun group run by Representative Heather The Legislatin&#8217; Lobbyist!&#8221; Martens and supported by Joyce Foundation money &#8211; is apparently trying a subtle rebrand:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41134\" style=\"width: 978px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=41134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41134\" title=\"ProtMN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ProtMN1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ProtMN1.png 968w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ProtMN1-300x94.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ProtMN1-500x158.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for full-sized image. (C) 2014, Liberals With Deep Pockets<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It used to just say &#8220;Minnesota Gun Violence Prevention&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re trying to be less threatening, I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gun grab movement in Minnesota is going to try to be a liiiiiiiittle bit more subtle this year. Look for more carefully-bearded ELCA ministers, and less Jane Kay. \u00a0Less magazine size, more &#8220;responsibility&#8221; and &#8220;safety&#8221;. With that in mind, &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN &#8211; the astroturf gun group run by Representative Heather The Legislatin&#8217; Lobbyist!&#8221; Martens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132","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=41132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41135,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132\/revisions\/41135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}