{"id":77208,"date":"2021-03-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77208"},"modified":"2021-03-18T03:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:57:29","slug":"hand-to-hand-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77208","title":{"rendered":"Hand To Hand Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What would this blog do without Representative Ryan Winkler?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not spend nearly as much time mocking and taunting, that&#8217;s for sure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats are defeating this pandemic and we&#39;re moving to reopen the economy, placing workers, families, and small businesses first. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/on3HtOWXay\">pic.twitter.com\/on3HtOWXay<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1371863367552430081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/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 I&#8217;m selling Winkler short.   He knows that after a year of squatting on small businesses, levying the worth of families by &#8220;essential&#8221;, non-essential or just plain above it all, and putting kids&#8217; interests <em>and <\/em>science behind those of the Teachers Union, his claim is baked wind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Winkler knows the most important fact of all:  the DFL base is complacent, ignorant and just as sodden with self-satisfied hubris and Winkler himself.  If any of them could think critically about anything, they wouldn&#8217;t be DFLers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope I&#8217;ve settled that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would this blog do without Representative Ryan Winkler? Not spend nearly as much time mocking and taunting, that&#8217;s for sure: Of course I&#8217;m selling Winkler short. He knows that after a year of squatting on small businesses, levying the worth of families by &#8220;essential&#8221;, non-essential or just plain above it all, and putting kids&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,20,320],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-77208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-democrats","category-mndfl","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208","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=77208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208\/revisions\/77212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}