{"id":10928,"date":"2010-05-17T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:25:02","slug":"king-of-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10928","title":{"rendered":"King Of Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt heard; Larry Haws is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/members\/pressrelease.asp?pressid=5654&amp;party=1&amp;memid=15187\">retiring from the Minnesota House:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because you\u2019re a friend and supporter, I wanted you to know first about my decision to not seek re-election. Five years ago I offered myself as a candidate for public office in Minnesota out of a deep sense of appreciation of the issues important to the people of District 15B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our friend and my radio colleague King Banaian is the GOP endorsed candidate for the House in 15B.\u00a0 Running for an open seat is easier under any circumstances; with the current anti-incumbent, anti-tax-and-spending tailwind, King&#8217;s gotta be feeling pretty good about his chances today.<\/p>\n<p>Which doesn&#8217;t mean all you Saint Cloud Republicans shouldn&#8217;t be turning out in huge numbers to help; it&#8217;d be great to be able to not just win, but obliterate the DFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt heard; Larry Haws is retiring from the Minnesota House: Because you\u2019re a friend and supporter, I wanted you to know first about my decision to not seek re-election. Five years ago I offered myself as a candidate for public office in Minnesota out of a deep sense of appreciation of the issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","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=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10929,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}