{"id":74963,"date":"2020-08-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74963"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:45:26","slug":"under-bus-shoved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74963","title":{"rendered":"Under Bus Shoved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Minneapolis launches the next phase of the PR battle over the destruction of East Lake Street:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newly released text messages show Minneapolis officials thought Gov. Tim Walz was &quot;hesitating&quot; on his response to the May rioting, then felt &quot;thrown under the bus&quot; by Walz.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CMPirT4vnT\">https:\/\/t.co\/CMPirT4vnT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Theo Keith (@TheoKeith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheoKeith\/status\/1290648165243392000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the story soft-pedals Mayor McDreamy&#8217;s pandering to the mob &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74250\">reported here on Thursday, May 27<\/a>, long before the rest of the media got to it &#8211; that Mayor Frey had ordered the Third Precinct to be essentially abandoned.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An over-his head mayor and a bunch of gauzy idealist staffers more suited to hosting grand openings for bike lanes than leading a city in crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A passive-aggressive governor reverting back to his gym teacher background (&#8220;you didn&#8217;t specify the ages and MOSes of the requested guardsmen, or their deployments down to squad level!  Do another cruncher, Frey!&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re in great hands, Minnesota. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis launches the next phase of the PR battle over the destruction of East Lake Street: Of course, the story soft-pedals Mayor McDreamy&#8217;s pandering to the mob &#8211; reported here on Thursday, May 27, long before the rest of the media got to it &#8211; that Mayor Frey had ordered the Third Precinct to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963","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=74963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74971,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963\/revisions\/74971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}