{"id":63749,"date":"2017-07-11T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63749"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:41:32","slug":"63749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63749","title":{"rendered":"Fizz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Independence Day, the national anthem, patriotism: <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/07\/02\/how-fireworks-exploded-into-history-and-became-an-american-symbol\/\">fireworks<\/a> are a national symbol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swcbulletin.com\/news\/politics\/1178626-dayton-vetoes-fireworks-expansion-kriesel-calls-governors-explanation\">Except in Minnesota<\/a> where the governor believes Minnesotans are so much stupider than our neighbors in South Dakota and Wisconsin, we cannot be trusted to read and follow simple instructions: \u201cLay on ground.\u00a0 Light fuse.\u00a0 Get away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Wednesday, I\u2019ll be reading news accounts about all the blind and fingerless Cheeseheads swamping the refugee camps in Stillwater after they accidentally burned down their own houses with bottle rockets. \u00a0At least they had fun doing it.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m looking forward to lighting those little black \u2018snake\u2019 pellets to watch them writhe.\u00a0 Whoopee,<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, they just legalized Sunday liquor sales. \u00a0They probably figure too much freedom (also booze) will be too intoxicating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Independence Day, the national anthem, patriotism: fireworks are a national symbol. Except in Minnesota where the governor believes Minnesotans are so much stupider than our neighbors in South Dakota and Wisconsin, we cannot be trusted to read and follow simple instructions: \u201cLay on ground.\u00a0 Light fuse.\u00a0 Get away.\u201d I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749","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=63749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63765,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions\/63765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}