{"id":77482,"date":"2021-04-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77482"},"modified":"2021-04-16T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T10:45:29","slug":"ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77482","title":{"rendered":"Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Recently I was in a meeting with State of Minnesota bureaucrats.  They said it is now the practice for state of MN meetings to start each one with this recital. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image001.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image001-300x133.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image001-500x221.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Why is this necessary?  Why not an acknowledgement for the ingenious federal republic devised to govern such a vast and varied people?  Why not an acknowledgement for the free enterprise market that has done more to raise more people out of poverty than any other economic system ever invented. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>  I was just so floored by the Land Acknowledgement.  Really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><p>That floors me, too.<\/p><p><\/p><p>And I have sat through Saint Paul school board meetings.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: Recently I was in a meeting with State of Minnesota bureaucrats. They said it is now the practice for state of MN meetings to start each one with this recital. Why is this necessary? Why not an acknowledgement for the ingenious federal republic devised to govern such a vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-first","category-pc","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482","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=77482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77484,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/revisions\/77484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}