{"id":1568,"date":"2007-11-05T05:35:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T10:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2007-11-05T05:35:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T10:35:34","slug":"close-but-no-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Close But No Cigar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/314\/story\/1525559.html\">Sunday&#8217;s column, Lori Sturdevant recites about eight column inches of party line<\/a> about former State Rep. and current Taxpayers&#8217; League president Phil Krinkie (&#8220;ironically&#8221;, exactly the same line that certain other lefty pundits are spouting) &#8211; and, by way of noting that she and Krinkie are college classmates, notes that she actually troubled herself to <em>talk with Krinkie <\/em>about the spin.<\/p>\n<p>And she says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Notice how much more reasonable a zealot can sound when chatting with an old classmate than when performing on the stump?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Lori.\u00a0 We notice how much more reasonable a reasonable person like Phil Krinkie sounds when his words aren&#8217;t filtered through a zealot disguised as a &#8220;gatekeeper&#8221; like yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Read it yourself.\u00a0 Make up your own mind.<\/p>\n<p>That might make Lori Sturdevant cry, but life&#8217;ll kill ya, won&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s column, Lori Sturdevant recites about eight column inches of party line about former State Rep. and current Taxpayers&#8217; League president Phil Krinkie (&#8220;ironically&#8221;, exactly the same line that certain other lefty pundits are spouting) &#8211; and, by way of noting that she and Krinkie are college classmates, notes that she actually troubled herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}