{"id":10312,"date":"2010-04-26T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:39:33","slug":"around-the-mob-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10312","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Our House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our next stop in our trip around the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers is\u00a0 <\/em>Our House,<\/em><\/a> by Minnesota’s public policy power couple, David Strom and Margaret Martin.<\/p>\n

David and Margaret need no introduction; David has been every Minnesota lefty’s regional standin for Karl Rove for nearly a decade, since he made the Taxpayers’ League the DFL’s official boogeyman.\u00a0 Margaret is a bit lower-key, working as a free-lance policy research\/expert\/political knowledge fixer (I honestly have no idea) for as long as I’ve known them.\u00a0\u00a0 They were for many years the NARN’s lead-in at AM1280 The Patriot, as co-hosts first of Taxpayers League Live <\/em>and then the David Strom Show <\/em>was one of the local conservative media’s weekly must-listens.<\/p>\n

The Strom’s blog motto is “Live like a liberal, vote like a conservative”.\u00a0 For me, that’s always been one of the blog’s big hooks; the Stroms live in North Minneapolis, a little red island in a sea of moldy blue.\u00a0\u00a0 The juxtaposition between their actual and political lives is interesting, especially for those of us who don’t necessarily fit the traditional mold of “how a conservative is supposed to live”.<\/p>\n

The Stroms have had a busy year, so the blogging has taken a justifiable backseat.\u00a0 Fortunately for the Stroms, Our House<\/em> and their public, they have a reliable backup when they don’t have time to do a lot of political writing (and writing on other blogs – Martin also runs the Minneapolis Crime Watch <\/em> blog, featured in this space a few weeks back); they are the Twin Cities’ foremost bird-bloggers:
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Birds taking baths!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our next stop in our trip around the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers is\u00a0 Our House, by Minnesota’s public policy power couple, David Strom and Margaret Martin. David and Margaret need no introduction; David has been every Minnesota lefty’s regional standin for Karl Rove for nearly a decade, since he made the Taxpayers’ League the DFL’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10336,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}