{"id":73967,"date":"2020-04-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73967"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:09:05","slug":"the-governor-we-really-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73967","title":{"rendered":"The Governor We Really Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bud Grant &#8211; the last person in public life who ever managed to portray Minnesotans as &#8220;tough&#8221;, with his bans on gloves and heaters on the sidelines at Vikings games in frigid Met Stadium in the dead of winter &#8211; is still at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vikingswire.usatoday.com\/2020\/04\/22\/93-year-old-bud-grant-im-not-quite-as-paranoid-as-some-people-might-be\/\">Asked whether Covid gives him pause at 93<\/a>, he responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve been through the polio epidemic \u2026 I was in the service during the War. All of those things have happened in my life, so I\u2019m not quite as paranoid as some people might be.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Heh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more a George Halas guy &#8211; but Minnesota needs more Bud Grant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Via regular commenter BossHoss)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bud Grant &#8211; the last person in public life who ever managed to portray Minnesotans as &#8220;tough&#8221;, with his bans on gloves and heaters on the sidelines at Vikings games in frigid Met Stadium in the dead of winter &#8211; is still at it. Asked whether Covid gives him pause at 93, he responded: \u201cI\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,24,77],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-culture-war","category-the-rare-sports-post","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967","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=73967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73969,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967\/revisions\/73969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}