{"id":4802,"date":"2009-05-19T07:19:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2009-05-19T07:19:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:19:42","slug":"the-banana-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4802","title":{"rendered":"The Banana State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dKAZDLhDgCI\">this video, of the final nine minutes of the 2009 Minnesota Senate Sesssion<\/a>, I notice a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p>First: They look like a bunch of drunks at last call.\u00a0 Its from the fatigue (previous Legislative drinking o duty scandals probably notwithstanding), of course, but still kinda funny.<\/p>\n<p>Second, and much less funny?\u00a0 Sit through the whole nine minutes of the video.\u00a0 The DFL, behind Senate Majority <em>Jefe <\/em>&#8220;Hugo&#8221; Pogemiller, rammed through a half-billion-dollar spending bill that nobody had had time to read yet.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 Zippo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Viva La Junta<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at this video, of the final nine minutes of the 2009 Minnesota Senate Sesssion, I notice a couple of things. First: They look like a bunch of drunks at last call.\u00a0 Its from the fatigue (previous Legislative drinking o duty scandals probably notwithstanding), of course, but still kinda funny. Second, and much less funny?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","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=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}