{"id":81659,"date":"2022-04-21T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81659"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:40:30","slug":"one-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81659","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Minnesota&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During his 2018 campaign, Governor Klink used the slogan &#8220;One Minnesota&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To those of us who study history, that caused a mirthless chuckile; German historians finished the slogan out: &#8220;One People, One Minnesota, One Leader&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And those of us who remember history were right; when politicians yap about &#8220;unity&#8221; and &#8220;One&#8221; anything, it&#8217;s about making everyone equally miserable and straitened, not happy and prosperous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case in point:  <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/property-crimes-way-up-in-minnetonka-from-pre-pandemic-levels\/\">Minnetonka is being OneMInnesota&#8217;ed<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his 2018 campaign, Governor Klink used the slogan &#8220;One Minnesota&#8221;. To those of us who study history, that caused a mirthless chuckile; German historians finished the slogan out: &#8220;One People, One Minnesota, One Leader&#8221;. And those of us who remember history were right; when politicians yap about &#8220;unity&#8221; and &#8220;One&#8221; anything, it&#8217;s about making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,144,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659","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=81659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81680,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659\/revisions\/81680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}