{"id":41613,"date":"2014-02-06T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41613"},"modified":"2014-02-06T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:28:48","slug":"once-theyve-seen-paree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41613","title":{"rendered":"Once They&#8217;ve Seen Paree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a neighborhood Facebook group the other day. \u00a0A woman started spouting off about the &#8220;homelessness&#8221; in the Bakken oil fields, by way of hinting &#8220;maybe those people out there need much <em>less <\/em>of all that oil and exploration and stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought &#8211; &#8220;Wow. \u00a0All those well-meaning Twin Citians &#8211; the media, the political establishment and just regular Metro-area folks &#8211; sure are concerned about the corrupting effects of jobs, prosperity, economic diversification and even a little wealth out there in the Badlands, aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>Like they should all go back to being season-to-season ranchers and farmers out in the middle of nowhere. \u00a0And speak when spoken to.<\/p>\n<p>And then it occurred to me &#8211; that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s <em>always <\/em>like up in the Iron Range &#8211; only they <em>never actually get to dig their mines<\/em>, unlike North Dakota. \u00a0My native state actually managed to get something <em>done &#8211; <\/em>probably before the <em>Strib <\/em>and MPR knew what &#8220;Bakken&#8221; meant &#8211; before the suffocating hand of &#8220;benevolent, patronizing good will from their betters&#8221; descended upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky ND!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a neighborhood Facebook group the other day. \u00a0A woman started spouting off about the &#8220;homelessness&#8221; in the Bakken oil fields, by way of hinting &#8220;maybe those people out there need much less of all that oil and exploration and stuff&#8221;. And I thought &#8211; &#8220;Wow. \u00a0All those well-meaning Twin Citians &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-minnesota-politics","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613","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=41613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41656,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions\/41656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}