{"id":7760,"date":"2010-01-11T08:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:42:02","slug":"dear-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"Dear Star Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Star\/Tribune<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, Gubernatorial Candidate, &#8220;No Government Subsidies To The Media&#8221; Party<\/p>\n<p>Re:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsinminnesota.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/star-tribune-surveying-candidates-for-governor-on-substance-use-and-mental-health-issues\/\">Your request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After snorting coke from the bellybuttons of a bunch of filipina hookers, waking up under piles of U of M cheerleaders after booze-induced blackouts, and telling people I enjoyed <em>Natural Born Killers, <\/em>I had someone tell me to pull it all together.<\/p>\n<p>I did.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; given the media&#8217;s history as self-appointed high priests of knowledge and newspaper reporters&#8217; reputation for sucking the fumes from the corks of empty booze bottles, perhaps you could favor us with details on your reporters&#8217; drinking habits?\u00a0 Y&#8217;know, so we can use it to judge your ability to cover the news?<\/p>\n<p>Failure to repond will be considered a go-ahead to say anything we want about you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ta,<\/p>\n<p>Mitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Star\/Tribune From: Mitch Berg, Gubernatorial Candidate, &#8220;No Government Subsidies To The Media&#8221; Party Re:\u00a0 Your request. After snorting coke from the bellybuttons of a bunch of filipina hookers, waking up under piles of U of M cheerleaders after booze-induced blackouts, and telling people I enjoyed Natural Born Killers, I had someone tell me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","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=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}