{"id":84562,"date":"2023-03-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84562"},"modified":"2023-02-28T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:28:30","slug":"the-bull-leaves-the-china-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84562","title":{"rendered":"The Bull Leaves The China Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lori Lightfoot, out as mayor of Chicago, after failing to advance to the runoff, in Yesterdays election:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lori Lightfoot concedes after failing to qualify for Chicago runoff election\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVcTgUulKGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The top two vote getters \u2013 the liberal endorsed by the police union, and the center radical endorsed by the teachers \u2013 will face off in the runoff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Mr. [Paul] Vallas, an adviser to the Fraternal Order of Police during its negotiations with Ms. Lightfoot\u2019s administration, used the crime issue against her on the way to his first-place finish, calling for hundreds of new police officers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out blue city Democrats <em>can<\/em> reach a tipping point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly what that means will be interesting to see, where \u201cinteresting\u201c means in the classic rural Scandinavian sense of the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Lightfoot, out as mayor of Chicago, after failing to advance to the runoff, in Yesterdays election: The top two vote getters \u2013 the liberal endorsed by the police union, and the center radical endorsed by the teachers \u2013 will face off in the runoff: Mr. [Paul] Vallas, an adviser to the Fraternal Order of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562","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=84562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84563,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions\/84563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}