{"id":58891,"date":"2016-05-24T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58891"},"modified":"2016-05-23T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:27:13","slug":"between-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58891","title":{"rendered":"Between The Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was &#8220;Beyonce Day&#8221; in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/theianlang.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/beyonce-fait-la-grimace-au-super-bowl-2013_exact810x609_l.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Ms. Beyonce.<\/p>\n<p>But the interesting part of the story was here (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In honor of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">performance<\/span><\/span> tonight, Governor Mark Dayton <strong>and Lt. Governor Tina Smith<\/strong> have proclaimed Monday, May 23, 2016, to be \u201cBeyonc\u00e9 Day\u201d in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>So when was the last time you say the Lieutenant Governor specifically mentioned in issuing this kind of proclamation?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re preparing the battlefield for Dayton&#8217;s resignation, and for Flint-Smith&#8217;s appointment as Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about it, the more I think the &#8220;after the Super Bowl&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=49012\">predictions for Dayton&#8217;s resignation<\/a> were dead-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was &#8220;Beyonce Day&#8221; in Minnesota. Congratulations, Ms. Beyonce. But the interesting part of the story was here (emphasis added): In honor of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s performance tonight, Governor Mark Dayton and Lt. Governor Tina Smith have proclaimed Monday, May 23, 2016, to be \u201cBeyonc\u00e9 Day\u201d in Minnesota. Huh. So when was the last time you say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891","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=58891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions\/58894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}