{"id":6409,"date":"2009-11-18T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:38:23","slug":"the-class-of-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6409","title":{"rendered":"The Class Of &#8217;04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gross&#8217; <em>Let Freedom Ring<\/em> blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letfreedomringblog.com\/?p=6245\">celebrating a big anniversary today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today marks the fifth anniversary of me starting blogging. It\u2019s understatement to say that it\u2019s been a great experience. During those years, I\u2019ve watched history being made, starting with the elections in Afghanistan, then Ukraine\u2019s Orange Revolution (that\u2019s how I first learned about King), followed by Iraq\u2019s Purple Finger election on Jan. 31, 2005, immediately followed by the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The Cedar Revolution was started when Syrian thugs assassinated Rafiq Harriri, the popular leader of Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, LFR evolved into a mostly political blog. Thanks to Final Word, I got interested in state level politics. On that front, the best is yet to come. There will be exciting news coming on that front soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully it involves video of Tarryl Clark taking wads of Jacksons from drug dealers.\u00a0 But I won&#8217;t hold my breath.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ll just say that it\u2019s about putting a common sense blueprint for winning in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, seriously now: Gary is one of the &#8220;Class of &#8217;04&#8221; &#8211; one of the big crowd of excellent center-right blogs that started in 2004.\u00a0 Gary has gone the extra step, though, parlaying <em>LFR <\/em>into a fairly influential source of info for Saint Cloud-area politics.\u00a0 Gary, along with King, is one of the leading voices for principled conservatism in Saint Cloud and the Sixth District.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Anniversary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gross&#8217; Let Freedom Ring blog is celebrating a big anniversary today: Today marks the fifth anniversary of me starting blogging. It\u2019s understatement to say that it\u2019s been a great experience. During those years, I\u2019ve watched history being made, starting with the elections in Afghanistan, then Ukraine\u2019s Orange Revolution (that\u2019s how I first learned about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","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=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}