{"id":89106,"date":"2025-01-27T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89106"},"modified":"2025-01-27T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:01:11","slug":"one-degree-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89106","title":{"rendered":"One Degree Of Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time, I&#8217;ve got one degree of separation from two members of the Trump cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth was the first guest ever interviewed on the NARN, back in March of 2004.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;ve interviewed Hegseth 2-3 times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>And closer yet, the wife of Doug Burgum &#8211; software mogul, two-term governor of North Dakota and now the Secretary of the Interior &#8211; is my high school classmate and homecoming queen Kathryn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s got quite the story to tell, herself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kathryn Burgum joins husband on 2024 campaign trail, talks overcoming addiction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_1hqhJRndE?start=31&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that it landed me an invite to the inauguration or anything, but still.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, I&#8217;ve got one degree of separation from two members of the Trump cabinet. Well, one and a half. Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth was the first guest ever interviewed on the NARN, back in March of 2004.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;ve interviewed Hegseth 2-3 times over the years. And closer yet, the wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-ate-for-oh-won","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106","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=89106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89106\/revisions\/89129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}