{"id":46606,"date":"2014-08-21T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46606"},"modified":"2014-08-20T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:09:24","slug":"shot-in-the-dark-todays-news-three-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46606","title":{"rendered":"Shot In The Dark: Today&#8217;s News, Three Weeks Ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Good News<\/strong>:\u00a0 Aaron Rupar yesterday became the first Twin Cities reporter to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2014\/08\/rep_ron_erhardt_allegedly_said_ill_blow_your_head_off_when_contacted_by_gun_rights_group.php\">cover Ron Erhardt&#8217;s bizarre alleged [*] outburst to Andrew Rothman<\/a>, of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance.\u00a0 Rothman was contacting the 84-year-old Edina representative to remind him to return\u00a0 his biennial gun rights survey.\u00a0 According to an affadavit from Rothman, Erhardt told him to stop contacting him or he&#8217;d &#8220;blow your head off&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Better News<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you get your news from <em>Shot In The Dark<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46102\">you knew this almost a month ago<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad News<\/strong>:\u00a0 While the various gun-rights commenters in the City Pages&#8217; comment section present themselves well, it&#8217;s depressing to note that each of the deranged-sounding anti-gun commentators&#8217; votes count as much as that of a smart person&#8217;s (and that&#8217;s assuming that Mark Ritchie doesn&#8217;t allow them to vote more than once).<\/p>\n<p><strong>And By The Way<\/strong>:\u00a0 Merry early Christmas, Dario Anselmo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good News:\u00a0 Aaron Rupar yesterday became the first Twin Cities reporter to cover Ron Erhardt&#8217;s bizarre alleged [*] outburst to Andrew Rothman, of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance.\u00a0 Rothman was contacting the 84-year-old Edina representative to remind him to return\u00a0 his biennial gun rights survey.\u00a0 According to an affadavit from Rothman, Erhardt told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,20],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-46606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-democrats","tag-guns-save-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606","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=46606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46610,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606\/revisions\/46610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}