{"id":80924,"date":"2022-02-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80924"},"modified":"2022-02-16T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:50:06","slug":"dispatches-from-planet-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80924","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from Planet DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One minor shout-out to former Minnesapolis mayor R.T. Rybak; to date, he is the only DFL politician to come on the Northern Alliance.  We had a great discussion.  You don&#8217;t have to throw plates at each other to have a good debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you can sure throw facts at each other:<\/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\">With downtown Minneapolis office workers coming back faster than restaurants are reopening, lunchtime lines form outside most popular.  Hey restaurants: Time to reopen\u2026customers are waiting<\/p>&mdash; R.T. Rybak (He\/Him) (@R_T_Rybak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/R_T_Rybak\/status\/1493653304005459971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, if one has never worked in the private sector, one might think re-opening a long-closed restaurant is a matter of unlocking the doors, logging into the stove and getting avocado onto toast.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not about getting food in stock, even without supply chain problems, or getting staff to come to a downtown that&#8217;s gotten very human-unfriendly, on top of expensive to park in and tangibly less pleasant to take the bus or train to, when employment options in much more amenable, affordable places are also available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there&#8217;s a real sense &#8211; at least, among people who pay attention to the DFL &#8211; that the current relaxation of Covid hypochondria is tied mostly to mid-term polling ,and when the &#8220;gnu&#8221; or &#8220;omega&#8221; variants come out in mid-November everything will get shut down in yet another frothing, unproductive, business-shredding panic, leaving those &#8220;Re-opened&#8221; restaurants giving their food away so it doesn&#8217;t rot in the freezer. Again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He does realize his party caused this, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One minor shout-out to former Minnesapolis mayor R.T. Rybak; to date, he is the only DFL politician to come on the Northern Alliance. We had a great discussion. You don&#8217;t have to throw plates at each other to have a good debate. But you can sure throw facts at each other: I mean, if one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80924","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=80924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80925,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80924\/revisions\/80925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}