{"id":86503,"date":"2023-11-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86503"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:07:11","slug":"false-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86503","title":{"rendered":"False Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Public is to art as it is to rest rooms”
— PJ O’Rourke, I think. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the less overtly but more insidiously stupid things the DFL controlled legislature sent the state chasing after this past session was redesigning the state flag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial submissions are in<\/a> and range from the adequate to the sardonic to the vile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice is such that some have suggested we, alone among states, need two, seasonal flags<\/a>. Now. as a North Dakota native, the idea that Minnesota’s seasons are radical enough to warrant separate is worth a laugh or two…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…but I see a case for multiple flags. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, I think it’s going to end up looking like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flags of the four powers that are eventually going to be forced to move in and liberate Minnesota, and partition it untli it’s De-DFLified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Public is to art as it is to rest rooms”— PJ O’Rourke, I think. Among the less overtly but more insidiously stupid things the DFL controlled legislature sent the state chasing after this past session was redesigning the state flag. The initial submissions are in and range from the adequate to the sardonic to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86503","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=86503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86508,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86503\/revisions\/86508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}