{"id":88007,"date":"2024-08-01T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88007"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:30:30","slug":"tea-leaves-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88007","title":{"rendered":"Tea Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two observations. <\/p>\n<p>First:\u00a0 Is <em>this<\/em>:<\/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\">Huge congrats to our Women&#39;s Gymnastics team for taking gold in Paris&#8211;especially our local hero Suni Lee!<br><br>Suni has been an amazing advocate for Minnesota and stopped by the Capitol last year to help bring the U.S. Gymnastic Trials to Minneapolis this June. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iui0HWVUkp\">https:\/\/t.co\/iui0HWVUkp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QE3GaEg37p\">pic.twitter.com\/QE3GaEg37p<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Senator Nicole Mitchell (@Sen_NMitchell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sen_NMitchell\/status\/1818697963327394067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Senator Mitchell&#8217;s Twitter account<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the cringiest photo you&#8217;ve seen since that collection of seventies family photos you got tricked into looking at?<\/p>\n<p>Second:\u00a0 She&#8217;s got no intention of leaving office, does she?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got a plea deal in the work with some sympathetic prosecutor, she&#8217;ll plead down to &#8220;disorderly conduct&#8221; &#8211; really, no worse than Matt Wolgamott\/Brion Curran\/Dave Hutchinson\/Julie Blaha driving drunk!\u00a0 Maybe even less! &#8211; and ride the issue out, and stay in office, until she gets a sinecure at some state agency &#8211; like, the state sentencing board, just to add hilarious insult to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any bets against?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two observations. First:\u00a0 Is this: &#8230;the cringiest photo you&#8217;ve seen since that collection of seventies family photos you got tricked into looking at? Second:\u00a0 She&#8217;s got no intention of leaving office, does she? She&#8217;s got a plea deal in the work with some sympathetic prosecutor, she&#8217;ll plead down to &#8220;disorderly conduct&#8221; &#8211; really, no worse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007","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=88007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88010,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007\/revisions\/88010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}