{"id":5338,"date":"2009-09-02T06:54:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2009-09-02T06:54:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T11:54:43","slug":"lifes-rich-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Rich Pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading Dusty Trice today when I was reminded of something from over the weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Over the busy opening weekend a few DUSTYTRICE.COM tipsters were volunteering to help tape over at the Patriot Radio booth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, indeed, they were.\u00a0 We had three gubernatorial candidates – Paul Kolls, Pat Anderson and Marty Seifert – on Saturday.\u00a0 Laura Brod was also on King’s show, although she’s not a candidate.\u00a0 They were on for half an hour each.\u00a0 And for that entire time, a couple of guys stood, holding a video camera, slurping it all up.\u00a0 For two hours.<\/p>\n

And on one level, I thought “wotta life – standing for two hours in the sun, videotaping every single thing a candidate says, waiting for a “flub”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And on the next level, I thought “it doesn’t matter what the candidates say, because the best they can hope for is to be merely wrenched out of context; whatever they say will be called “hateful” or “crazy” anyway”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading Dusty Trice today when I was reminded of something from over the weekend: Over the busy opening weekend a few DUSTYTRICE.COM tipsters were volunteering to help tape over at the Patriot Radio booth. Yes, indeed, they were.\u00a0 We had three gubernatorial candidates – Paul Kolls, Pat Anderson and Marty Seifert – on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","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=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}