{"id":5368,"date":"2009-09-08T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2009-09-08T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:36:05","slug":"the-shorter-twin-cities-blog-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5368","title":{"rendered":"The Shorter Twin Cities Blog Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Event<\/strong>:\u00a0 While bowling, David Strom knocked down all but the 8 and 9 pin, and then &#8211; improbably &#8211; picked up the spare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter Shot In The Dark<\/strong>: David Strom rolled a spare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter True North<\/strong>: David Strom rolled a spare. (<em>Comment on this post over at Shot In The Dark<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter Scott Johnson<\/strong>: In a scene reminiscent of the pandemonium after Jimi Hendrix&#8217; <em>tour de force <\/em>at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, our good friend David Strom did to the pins what he&#8217;s spent a career doing to the opponents of Milton Friedman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter <em>Dump Bachmann<\/em>: <\/strong>I bet it was actually Michele Bachmann dressed in a Strom suit.\u00a0 Developing&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter MNPost<\/strong>: We asked U of Minnesota Political Science professor Larry Jacobs to put Strom&#8217;s score in context for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter Ed Morrissey<\/strong>: David Strom rolled a spare &#8211; but he shouldn&#8217;t <em>pin <\/em>his hopes on a career as a bowler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter <em>Minnesota Progressive\u00a0Project<\/em>: <\/strong>David Strom knocked down 17 pens, just like Chimpy McBushitler knocked down teh Twin Towers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter Lori Sturdevant<\/strong>: David Strom rolled a spare. Elmer Anderson, a <em>real <\/em>Minnesota Republican, would have left a few pins for Democrats to pick up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shorter <em>Dusty Trice<\/em>: <\/strong>David Strom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustytrice.com\/?p=6421\">attacks mob<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Event:\u00a0 While bowling, David Strom knocked down all but the 8 and 9 pin, and then &#8211; improbably &#8211; picked up the spare. The Shorter Shot In The Dark: David Strom rolled a spare. The Shorter True North: David Strom rolled a spare. (Comment on this post over at Shot In The Dark) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","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=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}