{"id":34815,"date":"2013-03-06T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34815"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:20:35","slug":"the-fix-is-in-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34815","title":{"rendered":"The Fix Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Fix&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Chris Cilizza&#8217;s annual poll of the best political blogs by state has given this blog a bit of a jolt of levity over the years &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4541\">2009<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21586\">2011<\/a>, anyway. \u00a0And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2013\/03\/05\/the-fixs-best-state-based-political-blogs-list-is-here\/\">latest list is out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, the suspense was killing you.<\/p>\n<p>This years&#8217;, however, seems to be less a paroxysm of lefty fanboy turnout than previous years. \u00a0Cilizza&#8217;s list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/cspg\/smartpolitics\/\">Smart Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestemprairie.com\/\">Bluestem Prairie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/\">True North<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m happy and thankful for the recognition for True North. \u00a0It helps make up for the fact that TN&#8217;s staff &#8211; especially Nancy LaRoche and Derek Brigham &#8211; put in a lot of hard work for not a whole lot of payback.<\/p>\n<p>One can&#8217;t begrudge Eric Ostermeier his position, of course. \u00a0And the poll seems to recognize, as many of us do, that Sally Jo Sorenson of\u00a0<em>BSP<\/em>\u00a0is one of few Minnesota leftybloggers who doesn&#8217;t seem to need either police surveillance or court-ordered medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fix&#8217;s\u00a0Chris Cilizza&#8217;s annual poll of the best political blogs by state has given this blog a bit of a jolt of levity over the years &#8211; 2009 and 2011, anyway. \u00a0And the latest list is out. I know, the suspense was killing you. This years&#8217;, however, seems to be less a paroxysm of lefty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815","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=34815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34818,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}