{"id":71116,"date":"2019-04-22T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71116"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:04","slug":"i-problem-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71116","title":{"rendered":"I, Problem Solver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proposal making the rounds to change the name of Saint Croix State Park to honor former Minnesota Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/18\/release-of-mueller-report-finally-sets-trump-and-america-free\/\">there&#8217;s some pushback<\/a>. The park already has a perfectly good name with history that matters to the area and the state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People who live near the park, which opened in 1943 and featured dozens of New Deal-era\u00a0<span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">buildings<\/span><\/span>, say history would be lost as a result of renaming. They are circulating petitions seeking to keep the current St. Croix name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, (Mondale) did some wonderful things for our waterways,\u201d said Maria Nichols, who lives one mile from the park. \u201cBut I have been to the point where I\u2019ve almost thought of calling him and saying, \u2018Help us!\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should surprise nobody that Ryan Winkler wants to jam the name down anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Since my role in this world seems to be &#8220;solve other peoples&#8217; problems&#8221;, I&#8221;ll step in here.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s rename Lilydale State Park after the former Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Since it suffers from landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proposal making the rounds to change the name of Saint Croix State Park to honor former Minnesota Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale. Of course, there&#8217;s some pushback. The park already has a perfectly good name with history that matters to the area and the state: People who live near the park, [&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],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-71116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71116","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=71116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71136,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71116\/revisions\/71136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}