{"id":74527,"date":"2020-06-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74527"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:53:33","slug":"two-minnesotas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74527","title":{"rendered":"Two Minnesotas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We don&#8217;t like the statue of Columbus on the Capitol Grounds.<\/p><p>We tried to get it removed through official channels.<\/p><p>We lost.<\/p><p>We announced we were going to tear it down ourselves.<\/p><p>We heard the Governor tell us not to, that the police would stop us.<\/p><p>We didn&#8217;t care.<\/p><p>We<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2020\/06\/10\/protesters-tear-down-christopher-columbus-statue-on-minnesota-capitol-grounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;tore it down ourselves<\/a>.<\/p><p>We weren&#8217;t stopped.<\/p><p>We weren&#8217;t arrested.<\/p><p>We weren&#8217;t charged.<\/p><p>We weren&#8217;t even scolded.<\/p><p>We are heroes, taking back the lands our ancestors sold a century ago.<\/p><p>We&#8217;re coming for your house, next.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Some animals are more equal than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t like the statue of Columbus on the Capitol Grounds. We tried to get it removed through official channels. We lost. We announced we were going to tear it down ourselves. We heard the Governor tell us not to, that the police would stop us. We didn&#8217;t care. We&nbsp;tore it down ourselves. We weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74527","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=74527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74531,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74527\/revisions\/74531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}