{"id":65821,"date":"2018-01-30T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65821"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:06:16","slug":"i-suppose-its-better-than-beaten-down-passive-aggressive-lemmings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65821","title":{"rendered":"I Suppose It’s Better Than “Beaten-Down Passive-Aggressive Lemmings”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media tells us we’ll l be hearing a lot of the motto “Bold North<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

From billboards to merchandise to the utterances of the international media that has descended on the Twin Cities, \u201cBold North,\u201d the tagline of Super Bowl LII, will be everywhere.<\/p>\n

And, yeah, that\u2019s us: Minnesota. We\u2019re the Bold North.<\/p>\n

Not the Midwest, or the Upper Midwest. Or the \u201cNation\u2019s Ice Box.\u201d Certainly not the place where cute-but-simple folks say \u201cOh Geez.\u201d Or the place where everyone is humbly above average.<\/p>\n

Bold North is the place where you don\u2019t merely hope to survive a sub-zero north wind, you stick your chin into the teeth of it with pride. Take that, Lake Wobegon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it’s marketing; marketing brought to you by the same people who brought you the campaign to spend a billion dollars of taxpayer money to pay for Zygi Wilf’s real estate upgrade (to say nothing of the Star-Tribune’s real estate windfall:<\/p>\n

According to interviews with several people who were part of Bold North\u2019s inception, Eric Dayton deserves credit for the \u201cNorth\u201d part.<\/p>\n

Dayton and his brother Andrew are the owners of Bachelor Farmer restaurant, Askov Finlayson clothing store and Marvel Bar, three successful businesses in the North Loop of Minneapolis. They\u2019re also the sons of Gov. Mark Dayton, whose great-grandfather founded Dayton\u2019s department store, a venture that later became Target Corp. (Gov. Mark Dayton Monday uttered \u201cBold North\u201d a few times during Monday\u2019s official first news conference \u2014 the first time he said he\u2019s spoken the term.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s translate that into English.<\/p>\n

The media\/DFL\/business cartel that controls life in the Twin Cities is generating slogans for the proles to chant.\u00a0 Like\u00a0Kraft Durch Freude<\/em>, or “Ignorance Is Strength”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media tells us we’ll l be hearing a lot of the motto “Bold North“: From billboards to merchandise to the utterances of the international media that has descended on the Twin Cities, \u201cBold North,\u201d the tagline of Super Bowl LII, will be everywhere. And, yeah, that\u2019s us: Minnesota. We\u2019re the Bold North. Not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65821","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=65821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65826,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65821\/revisions\/65826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}