{"id":65932,"date":"2018-02-13T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65932"},"modified":"2018-02-12T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:39:02","slug":"congratulations-are-in-order-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65932","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Are In Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Stassen-Berger &#8211; who&#8217;s been a fixture in political coverage in the Metro for as long as I&#8217;ve been paying attention &#8211; has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/02\/13\/des-moines-register-announces-new-politics-editor\/330934002\/\">moved on up to a politics editor job at the Des Moines Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Stassen-Berger will oversee the Register\u2019s politics and policy team, which includes coverage of state government, health care, Iowa\u2019s congressional delegation and the Iowa caucuses. She will start in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Stassen-Berger has covered the Statehouse in St. Paul for 16 years. Most recently, she was the capitol bureau chief, as well as a reporter and columnist, for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She has also served as a political writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Register doesn&#8217;t have quite the sheen it did thirty years ago &#8211; but it&#8217;s a great move for Stassen-Berger, and I wish her all the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Stassen-Berger &#8211; who&#8217;s been a fixture in political coverage in the Metro for as long as I&#8217;ve been paying attention &#8211; has moved on up to a politics editor job at the Des Moines Register. Stassen-Berger will oversee the Register\u2019s politics and policy team, which includes coverage of state government, health care, Iowa\u2019s congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932","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=65932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65933,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932\/revisions\/65933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}