{"id":85548,"date":"2023-07-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85548"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:57:33","slug":"duck-duck-gray-duckspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85548","title":{"rendered":"Duck Duck Gray Duckspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Klink was clearly not a writing teacher.  And, for that matter, the social media interns from Macalester who apparently run his social media feed must have tested out of reading any actual good writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story short:  The Governor&#8217;s social media feed is more clich\u00e9-ridden than Pointy Haired Boss, an Anthony Robbins seminar and your company&#8217;s marketing department all rolled together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples:  <\/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\">You heard it here first \u2b07\ufe0f Minnesota is leading the way on combating climate change \u2013 and we\u2019re creating clean energy jobs in the process. This is how we invest in a strong economic future. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMNXhQsxfj\">https:\/\/t.co\/HMNXhQsxfj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1679149736635559938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\">In Minnesota, we\u2019re building a world-class workforce that\u2019s ready to compete.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1679561899740889088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\">Keeping Minnesota competitive in the global economy means preparing our young people for the workforce.<br>\u00a0<br>We\u2019re investing more than $7 million in workforce development to ensure we have a pipeline of young Minnesotans filling the high-skill jobs we have open right now.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1679628773673582592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So as a public service to the state of Minnesota, I&#8217;d like to run a contest to come up with more, better Tim Walz tweets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say &#8220;the more clich\u00e9-clogged the better&#8221;, but that goes without saying, doesn&#8217;t it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners announced over the weekend.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Klink was clearly not a writing teacher. And, for that matter, the social media interns from Macalester who apparently run his social media feed must have tested out of reading any actual good writing. Long story short: The Governor&#8217;s social media feed is more clich\u00e9-ridden than Pointy Haired Boss, an Anthony Robbins seminar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548","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=85548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85548\/revisions\/85549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}