{"id":78021,"date":"2021-05-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78021"},"modified":"2021-05-24T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:44:04","slug":"pork-barrel-almost-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78021","title":{"rendered":"Pork-Barrel.  Almost Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DFL put this out on social media over the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age-634x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78022\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age-634x1024.jpeg 634w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age-186x300.jpeg 186w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age-768x1241.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age-950x1536.jpeg 950w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USDA-age.jpeg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In partnership with the USDA?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t there some kind of rule against using taxpayer money (or things bought with taxpayer money) to directly benefit a political party? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, they put this event at their headquarters &#8211; down an obscure little side road along the river, far from where most of the hungry people are &#8211; for a reason, right? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL put this out on social media over the weekend: &#8220;In partnership with the USDA?&#8221; Isn&#8217;t there some kind of rule against using taxpayer money (or things bought with taxpayer money) to directly benefit a political party? I mean, they put this event at their headquarters &#8211; down an obscure little side road along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021","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=78021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78023,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021\/revisions\/78023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}