{"id":75946,"date":"2020-11-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75946"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:23","slug":"leading-from-the-rear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75946","title":{"rendered":"Leading From The Rear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz was a National Guard noncommissioned officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to believe he knows one of the key principles of leadership &#8211; never ask those you&#8217;re leading to do something you&#8217;re not willing to do yourself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought about that when I read this&#8230;<\/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\">This is a critical time for our bars, restaurants, and the people whose livelihoods depend on them. Ordering online gift cards or grabbing takeout is one way you can complement our efforts to provide relief. Let&#39;s get through this together. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GetTakeoutMN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GetTakeoutMN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1331025739920105476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the latest in an eight month series of such platitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it plausible that someone presumably promoted by the Army for demonstrating some leadership skill actually believes that someone with a government income and benefits chanting platitudes like &#8220;we&#8217;re all in this together&#8221; to people who are losing, have lost or will lose everything is sound leadership?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is he unaware?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or given the Twin Cities&#8217; obsequious media, does he just know it doesn&#8217;t matter? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz was a National Guard noncommissioned officer. As such, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to believe he knows one of the key principles of leadership &#8211; never ask those you&#8217;re leading to do something you&#8217;re not willing to do yourself. I thought about that when I read this&#8230; &#8230;the latest in an eight month series of [&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],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-75946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75946","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=75946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75947,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75946\/revisions\/75947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}