{"id":41511,"date":"2014-01-30T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41511"},"modified":"2014-01-30T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:24:44","slug":"benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41511","title":{"rendered":"Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dave Thompson has jumped about four months ahead of the usual pace and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_25022925\/ap-newsbreak-thompson-picks-benson-gov-race?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com\">picked Senator Michelle Benson<\/a> as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>The pick makes a lot of sense; Benson has been out front opposing Minnesota&#8217;s gathering healthcare debacle since before it was cool.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside? \u00a0 If Thompson wins, we&#8217;ll lose Benson in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dave Thompson has jumped about four months ahead of the usual pace and picked Senator Michelle Benson as his running mate. The pick makes a lot of sense; Benson has been out front opposing Minnesota&#8217;s gathering healthcare debacle since before it was cool. The only downside? \u00a0 If Thompson wins, we&#8217;ll lose Benson in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511","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=41511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41513,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions\/41513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}