{"id":45824,"date":"2014-07-17T12:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45824"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:21:54","slug":"why-im-never-running-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45824","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m Never Running For Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago, a sitting (at the time) GOP representative and long-time friend of this blog told me &#8220;you do realize, Mitch, that between the blog and your show, you can never, ever run for political office, don&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that my written body of work is, no doubt, some oppo researcher&#8217;s dream has certainly served to keep me from getting too enthusiastic about pursuing a life in politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s largely a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, opposition research on both sides &#8211; but especially the Democrats &#8211; is dedicated to making running for office as personally gruelling as possible for anyone who&#8217;d want to try.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the lefty<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2014\/07\/eden_prairie_gop_candidates_outspoken_blogging_elicits_criticism_from_both_sides_of_aisle.php\">media&#8217;s on-cue jumping up and down like a bunch of poo-flinging monkey&#8217;s over Sheila Kihne&#8217;s old, excellent but long-dormant blog <\/a>is so unsurprising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, since it&#8217;s a primary battle, some Republicans are pitching in to defend incumbent Jennifer Loon against Kihne&#8217;s challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s one good thing about the blog; it&#8217;s cut down on any temptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago, a sitting (at the time) GOP representative and long-time friend of this blog told me &#8220;you do realize, Mitch, that between the blog and your show, you can never, ever run for political office, don&#8217;t you?&#8221; The fact that my written body of work is, no doubt, some oppo researcher&#8217;s dream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-circular-firing-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824","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=45824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824\/revisions\/45830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}