{"id":5228,"date":"2009-08-10T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2009-08-10T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T17:01:37","slug":"mob-party-we-can-all-be-consiglieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5228","title":{"rendered":"MOB Party:  We Can All Be Consiglieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I announced that the next MOB party is scheduled for August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Some said &#8220;the notice is too short&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll do something unprecedented in MOB history:\u00a0 Throw it open to a vote.\u00a0 The choices:<\/p>\n<p>August 22 (a week from this coming Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>September 12 (the weekend after the state fair is over, and autum is kicking in).<\/p>\n<p>Upsides to the 22nd &#8211; I need a drink.<\/p>\n<p>Upsides to the 12th &#8211; more time, fewer summer distractions, weather should be good, and there&#8217;s a chance that cigar patios will be legal again.\u00a0 More on that later today.<\/p>\n<p>So vote early and often!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/\/ Begin Pollhost.com Poll Code \/\/ --><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/poll.pollhost.com\/vote.cgi\">\n<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"><strong>What Is The Best Night For The Next MOB Party<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">August 22<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"2\" \/><\/td>\n<td><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">September 12<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"3\" \/><\/td>\n<td><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">Let&#8217;s just crash &#8220;Drinking Liberally&#8221; and make them cry for momma.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"config\" value=\"bWl0Y2hiZXJnCTEyNDk4Mzg2MjAJRkZGRkZGCTAwMDAwMAlBcmlhbAlBc3NvcnRlZA\" \/><center><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Vote\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<input type=\"submit\" name=\"view\" value=\"View\" \/><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" align=\"right\" colspan=\"2\"><font size=\"-2\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollhost.com\/\"><font color=\"#000099\">Free polls from Pollhost.com<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p> <!-- \/\/ End Pollhost.com Poll Code \/\/ -->Note that I&#8217;ve set this so everyone gets one vote &#8211; not a <em>daily <\/em>vote.\u00a0 Joke votes will be your final answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I announced that the next MOB party is scheduled for August 22. Some said &#8220;the notice is too short&#8221;. So I&#8217;ll do something unprecedented in MOB history:\u00a0 Throw it open to a vote.\u00a0 The choices: August 22 (a week from this coming Saturday). September 12 (the weekend after the state fair is over, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","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=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}