{"id":65741,"date":"2018-01-19T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65741"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:49:44","slug":"this-is-your-new-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65741","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your New Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tina Smith on Facebook, failing a question that used to be a no-brainer in ninth grade civics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tina-Speaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65742 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tina-Speaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tina-Speaks.jpg 605w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tina-Speaks-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Senator&#8221;:\u00a0 the Continuing Resolution requires sixty votes.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP doesn&#8217;t have sixty votes in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Smith exhibits a level of command of her office not seen in the Senate since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, gosh, who was the worst Senator in recent memory?<\/p>\n<p>Who, oh, who indeed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tina Smith on Facebook, failing a question that used to be a no-brainer in ninth grade civics: &#8220;Senator&#8221;:\u00a0 the Continuing Resolution requires sixty votes. The GOP doesn&#8217;t have sixty votes in the Senate. Senator Smith exhibits a level of command of her office not seen in the Senate since&#8230; &#8230;well, gosh, who was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65741","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=65741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65743,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65741\/revisions\/65743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}