{"id":61149,"date":"2016-12-01T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61149"},"modified":"2016-12-01T07:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:23:34","slug":"a-little-more-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61149","title":{"rendered":"A Little More Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Governor Dayton, by way of trying to pitch the state on spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to upgrade Ziggy Wilf&#8217;s\u00a0real estate for him, referred to the new US Bank Stadium as &#8220;The Peoples Stadium&#8221;, many of us couldn&#8217;t miss the inevitable reference connecting it to anything else labeled &#8220;Peoples&#8221;, like the &#8220;Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea&#8221; or &#8220;peoples Liberation have army&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When I made the association, it was pretty much just a reflex based on the usage of the term.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I knew it would eventually turn into the real thing \u2013 a publicly\u00a0paid amenity that would favor our ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>Was I right?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to parallels between the USSR and the Minnesota DFL, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.startribune.com\/work-or-perk-u-s-bank-stadium-executives-have-free-access-to-luxury-suite-seats\/403153766\/\">aren&#8217;t I always?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Governor Dayton, by way of trying to pitch the state on spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to upgrade Ziggy Wilf&#8217;s\u00a0real estate for him, referred to the new US Bank Stadium as &#8220;The Peoples Stadium&#8221;, many of us couldn&#8217;t miss the inevitable reference connecting it to anything else labeled &#8220;Peoples&#8221;, like the &#8220;Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61149","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=61149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61192,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61149\/revisions\/61192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}