{"id":84741,"date":"2023-03-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84741"},"modified":"2023-03-24T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T11:27:09","slug":"84741","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84741","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The tides <a href=\"http:\/\/streets.mn\/2023\/03\/22\/transit-is-in-trouble\/\">seem to be changing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember when a similar editorial was written about downtown Minneapolis and the man who wrote it was basically canceled. And the Star Tribune took it down.<br>It&#8217;s interesting to note how the writer says, &#8220;I don\u2019t raise these opinions in certain rooms, because I am deeply enmeshed in the progressive ecosystem of belief, and have adapted to those spaces for much of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glad he finally feels brave enough to raise these concerns. Hope we can get some real enforcement nationwide on Fentanyl use, crime, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope springs eternal, I suppose.  But that would involve admitting there&#8217;s a problem &#8211; and what the causes of those problems actually are.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baby steps, maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: The tides seem to be changing.\u00a0 I remember when a similar editorial was written about downtown Minneapolis and the man who wrote it was basically canceled. And the Star Tribune took it down.It&#8217;s interesting to note how the writer says, &#8220;I don\u2019t raise these opinions in certain rooms, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,104,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741","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=84741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84741\/revisions\/84751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}