{"id":88227,"date":"2024-08-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88227"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:59:38","slug":"opaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88227","title":{"rendered":"Opaque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minnesota DFL Regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t talk with the press, unless they&#8217;ve been vetted as utterly innocuous (Esme Murphy, Jason DeRusha) or affirmatively friendly (Rochelle Olson).<\/p>\n<p>No, the sum total of the regime&#8217;s &#8220;transparency&#8221; is this time of the summer, when you get video of them wandering about the State Fair in their &#8220;Just Plain Folks!&#8221; costumes, eating junk food on camera.\u00a0<\/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\">There are over 30 new foods at this year\u2019s Minnesota State Fair!<br>\u00a0<br>I couldn\u2019t think of anyone better to try a few new foods with than my buddy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewzimmern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@andrewzimmern<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kvtwmDISRH\">pic.twitter.com\/kvtwmDISRH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (@LtGovFlanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan\/status\/1827843045401956449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, I suppose it&#8217;s easier than answering actual questions&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota DFL Regime.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t talk with the press, unless they&#8217;ve been vetted as utterly innocuous (Esme Murphy, Jason DeRusha) or affirmatively friendly (Rochelle Olson). No, the sum total of the regime&#8217;s &#8220;transparency&#8221; is this time of the summer, when you get video of them wandering about the State Fair in their &#8220;Just Plain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88227","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=88227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88228,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88227\/revisions\/88228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}