{"id":5006,"date":"2009-06-30T14:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:36:10","slug":"embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5006","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

BREAKING: Minnesota’s highest court rules for Al Franken<\/a><\/p>\n

The unanimous opinion ruled that Franken “received the highest number of votes legally cast” and is entitled “to receive the certificate of election as United States senator from the state of Minnesota.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Minn. rules for Franken in Senate fight <\/a><\/p>\n

Franken, a former Saturday Night Live star making the leap from life as a left-wing author and radio talker to the Senate, planned a news conference later Tuesday and didn’t immediately comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With credentials like that, it’s official:<\/p>\n

Wellstone<\/p>\n

Dayton<\/p>\n

now Franken.<\/p>\n

It’s a threepeat of embarrassment.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Mr. Franken will provide bloggers plenty of antics to write about; hardly a silver lining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is only a matter of time. BREAKING: Minnesota’s highest court rules for Al Franken The unanimous opinion ruled that Franken “received the highest number of votes legally cast” and is entitled “to receive the certificate of election as United States senator from the state of Minnesota.” Minn. rules for Franken in Senate fight Franken, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-senator-franken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}