{"id":89459,"date":"2025-03-28T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89459"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:57:33","slug":"second-acts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89459","title":{"rendered":"Second Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>America loves second acts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The child star who disappeared under a mound of blow at age 15, coming back with a stellar performance. <\/p>\n<p>The team that started the season in the cellar, going to the championship. <\/p>\n<p>The 35 year old short reliever who started as an 18 year old prodigy before getting stuck in AAA ball for a decade and a half that pitches a shutout to get the save, and a little bit of immortality, in the big game. <\/p>\n<p>The political party that squandered a $18B surplus to create a $6B deficit, while blowing up the budget 40% and jacking up taxes, rebranding itself as tax hawks for the children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wait.\u00a0 Wut?<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mnhouseDFL\/status\/1905339030528491868\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And kudos to the social media intern for that clever job of editing all the facts out of the interchange, to make it look like Rep. Gomez was winning the discussion.\u00a0 It was&#8230;creative.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America loves second acts.\u00a0 The child star who disappeared under a mound of blow at age 15, coming back with a stellar performance. The team that started the season in the cellar, going to the championship. The 35 year old short reliever who started as an 18 year old prodigy before getting stuck in AAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,320,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89459","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=89459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89460,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89459\/revisions\/89460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}