{"id":89112,"date":"2025-01-22T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89112"},"modified":"2025-01-22T06:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:38:46","slug":"stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89112","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anonymous source, seemingly implausible conclusion &#8211; but Gary Gross at &#8220;Liberty and Prosperity&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyprosperityblog.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/is-melissa-hortman-out-of-her-mind.html\">says there&#8217;s a rumor afoot<\/a> at the Capitol &#8211; emphasis added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This past Friday, a loyal reader to this blog informed me that there were <strong>rumors were swirling around the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul that 2 DFL legislators were thinking about switching from the DFL to the GOP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, I thought that this type of talk is typical when margins are this close. This friend assured me this wasn&#8217;t typical gossip mill fodder. This friend told me that these DFL representatives are tired of the DFL&#8217;s win-at-all-costs stunts. I&#8217;d assume that this includes the Curtis Johnson fiasco in HD-40B.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Its fun to think about.  I find it implausible (if you&#8217;re on top of this rumor, drop me a line), but then everything about this past six months in national politics, and two weeks in Minnesota, has been implausible as well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous source, seemingly implausible conclusion &#8211; but Gary Gross at &#8220;Liberty and Prosperity&#8221; says there&#8217;s a rumor afoot at the Capitol &#8211; emphasis added: Its fun to think about. I find it implausible (if you&#8217;re on top of this rumor, drop me a line), but then everything about this past six months in national politics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112","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=89112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112\/revisions\/89113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}