{"id":87263,"date":"2024-04-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87263"},"modified":"2024-04-01T05:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:58:39","slug":"the-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87263","title":{"rendered":"The Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you may recall, our &#8220;Lieutenant&#8221;\/co-governor and state&#8217;s designated Karen, Peggy Flanagan, filled out her March Madness bracket based on the schools&#8217; home state abortion laws.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/march-madness-live\/bracket\">well under half right in the first round<\/a>.   She was down to two of the Elite Eight, and one &#8211; UConn, seeded #1 in its quarter of the bracket &#8211; left in the Final Four. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8220;abortions laws&#8221; might not be a great predictor of basketball success.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carry permit laws and Contitutional Carry.   Seven out of the &#8220;Elite Eight&#8221; were either shall-issue or Constitutional Carry, and Connecticut has always been the most liberal of the mid-Atlantic states as re issuing permits.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may recall, our &#8220;Lieutenant&#8221;\/co-governor and state&#8217;s designated Karen, Peggy Flanagan, filled out her March Madness bracket based on the schools&#8217; home state abortion laws. She got well under half right in the first round. She was down to two of the Elite Eight, and one &#8211; UConn, seeded #1 in its quarter 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":[77,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87263","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=87263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87264,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87263\/revisions\/87264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}