{"id":74195,"date":"2020-05-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74195"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:04:53","slug":"heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74195","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Walking Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Went for a walk, saw this sign, having trouble identifying the symbol for &#8220;government bureaucrats.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200519_195016-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>Hey, we&#8217;re essential, you know.&nbsp; Those papers aren&#8217;t going to shuffle themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardonic as Joe is, he knows as well as anyone that government workers of all kinds are the most essential workers there are.  They&#8217;re public employees union members &#8211; the backbone of the DFL.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re essential to his and the DFL&#8217;s power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we all knew this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a walk, saw this sign, having trouble identifying the symbol for &#8220;government bureaucrats.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hey, we&#8217;re essential, you know.&nbsp; Those papers aren&#8217;t going to shuffle themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;Joe Doakes Sardonic as Joe is, he knows as well as anyone that government workers of all kinds are the most essential workers there are. They&#8217;re public employees union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,129],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-unions","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74195","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=74195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74199,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74195\/revisions\/74199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}