{"id":74126,"date":"2020-05-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74126"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"you-get-the-government-you-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74126","title":{"rendered":"You Get The Government You Pay For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Campaign contributions for <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/minnesota-candy-store-allowed-to-re-open-due-to-personal-connection-with-governor-walz\/\">exemption<\/a>. Nice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There is speculation that the revelation that the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Candy Store&#8221;&#8216;s getting rated as &#8220;essential&#8221; because their owner is friends with and a donor to Waltz created optics that were starting to hurt Walz, and between that and the fact that Minnesotans are actually <em>acting <\/em>less sociallyi-distant than Georgians (who opened up to great calumny a few weeks back, and aren&#8217;t dying off in droves) led to yesterday&#8217;s modest, token relaxation of the shutdown.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We certainly see what it takes to get the governor&#8217;s attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign contributions for exemption. Nice. There is speculation that the revelation that the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Candy Store&#8221;&#8216;s getting rated as &#8220;essential&#8221; because their owner is friends with and a donor to Waltz created optics that were starting to hurt Walz, and between that and the fact that Minnesotans are actually acting less sociallyi-distant than Georgians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2,320],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126","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=74126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74127,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions\/74127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}