{"id":63814,"date":"2017-07-19T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63814"},"modified":"2017-07-16T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:57:06","slug":"63814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63814","title":{"rendered":"Northern Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Went to a birthday party this weekend, turns out it was a Klan rally.\u00a0 Everyone was talking about how much they hate Black voters, how stupid they are,\u00a0 what their favorite media person called them and how best to undermine their success.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what to say to fit in so I smiled a lot and left early.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oh wait,\u00a0 did I say Klan?\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 I meant Democrat.\u00a0\u00a0 It was Trump voters they hated.\u00a0 Hard to tell the difference when they take their robes off.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The most gleefully racist person I ever personally met was a DFL organizer from the East Side. \u00a0No, I don&#8217;t transfer his behavior to all DFLers &#8211; but if I did, boy, would I think DFLers were racists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Still, you get some urban progressives talking about Republicans, and it&#8217;s hard to use a term other than &#8220;bigotry&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Went to a birthday party this weekend, turns out it was a Klan rally.\u00a0 Everyone was talking about how much they hate Black voters, how stupid they are,\u00a0 what their favorite media person called them and how best to undermine their success.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what to say to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814","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=63814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63818,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814\/revisions\/63818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}