{"id":67889,"date":"2018-09-05T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67889"},"modified":"2018-09-04T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:07:25","slug":"the-musical-christmas-truce-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67889","title":{"rendered":"The Musical Christmas Truce In September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation is truly polarized.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll cop to it; one small part of it is because I&#8217;m pretty revolted by what the &#8220;other side&#8221; in our national debate wants.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not gonna be easy to resolve.\u00a0 Maybe we can&#8217;t.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>But if you dig long and hard enough, you can usually find\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>common ground.<\/p>\n<p>So with me and former Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sometimes I don\u2019t get out of the car because I am listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EStreetRadio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EStreetRadio<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SIRIUSXM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SIRIUSXM<\/a> and it\u2019s just so good. \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Betsy Hodges (@BetsyHodges) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetsyHodges\/status\/1037092592935219201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And what the heck &#8211; why not celebrate the little things.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I figured if I read you long enough I\u2019d find something in common. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gottaLiveItEveryDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gottaLiveItEveryDay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mitch Berg (@mitchpberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/1037097357203173377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it ain&#8217;t no sin to be glad to talk about something other than politics once in a while:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KP6AZpinXoo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK.  Back to business.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation is truly polarized. And I&#8217;ll cop to it; one small part of it is because I&#8217;m pretty revolted by what the &#8220;other side&#8221; in our national debate wants.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not gonna be easy to resolve.\u00a0 Maybe we can&#8217;t.\u00a0 Who knows? But if you dig long and hard enough, you can usually find\u00a0some\u00a0common ground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889","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=67889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67891,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions\/67891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}