{"id":7857,"date":"2010-01-18T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:52:54","slug":"around-the-mob-centrisity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7857","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Centrisity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years back, incontinent shriekblogger Karl Bremer jumped up and down and\u00a0shot steam\u00a0out his nostrils and bellowed that the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers was a conservative organization.\u00a0 To be fair, Bremer always <\/em>jumps up and down and squirts steam out his ears, so it’s not that big a distinction…<\/p>\n

…but the main point is that the MOB is, and has always been, intended to be utterly non-partisan.\u00a0 That it is largely conservative could be chalked up to any number of reasons – I suspect it’s that way too many liberals really really can’t tolerate cognitive dissonance – but the proof is in the pudding; our seminnual MOB parties have welcomed people of every political stripe, from Swiftee to Eva Young to Eric Black.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Flash from Centrisity<\/a> is one of the MOB’s charter members.\u00a0 He’s a center-lefty, and so is his blog.<\/p>\n

But just as Flash and I go way back beyond blogging and politics (we’ve been friends and neighbors since long before either of us thought “blog” was anything other than a post-drunken-burrito-frenzy kind of bodily noise), his blog often enough focuses on the sorts of things that should unite us all; family (including his years-long narratives about his songs, including Sergeant Tom, who just got out of the Marines), community, and most importantly, beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yes folks, Global Climate Change has been officially confirmed.<\/p>\n

Today, January 15, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Spring arrived in the Midway. On tap, Natural Ice<\/a>! I need the 5.9% alcohols to keep the lines clear LOL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Flash’s kegerator has long been not only the social center of the central Midway for almost a generation – but its’ first tapping of the season is always the great harbinger of spring in this part of Saint Paul.\u00a0 The ceremonial first tapping is usually a sign that winter is over.<\/p>\n

(But…January 15?\u00a0\u00a0The phrase “Beerational Exuberance” springs to mind.\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll discuss it at the garage sometime this next weekend).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years back, incontinent shriekblogger Karl Bremer jumped up and down and\u00a0shot steam\u00a0out his nostrils and bellowed that the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers was a conservative organization.\u00a0 To be fair, Bremer always jumps up and down and squirts steam out his ears, so it’s not that big a distinction… …but the main point is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,20,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-democrats","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","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=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49870,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/49870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}