{"id":66695,"date":"2018-04-30T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66695"},"modified":"2018-04-29T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:24:23","slug":"whats-in-an-acronym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66695","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In An Acronym?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Republican Farmer Labor&#8221; caucus picked a logo that looks suspiciously like the logo of another state organization that has (not coincidentally) nothing to do with farms or (non-government) labor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66697 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL-500x281.png 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RFLDFL.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DFL has sent a &#8220;Cease and Desist&#8221; to the RFL.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if I were the RFL&#8217;s lawyer, I&#8217;d response demanding that the DFL stop falsely pretending to represent farmers or non-government workers.<\/p>\n<p>Which brought up an interesting question:\u00a0 since 2\/3 of the Democrat Farmer Labor party&#8217;s name is now obsolete, what\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>the party be called these days?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking nominations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Democrat Academic Plutocrat (DAP) Party.<\/li>\n<li>The Democrat Academic Government Whole Foods Shopper Party (DAGWF)<\/li>\n<li>The Democrat People Who Think John Oliver Is The Dreamiest Party (DQPTJOITD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Republican Farmer Labor&#8221; caucus picked a logo that looks suspiciously like the logo of another state organization that has (not coincidentally) nothing to do with farms or (non-government) labor: The DFL has sent a &#8220;Cease and Desist&#8221; to the RFL. Now, if I were the RFL&#8217;s lawyer, I&#8217;d response demanding that the DFL stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695","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=66695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions\/66698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}