{"id":11,"date":"2002-08-28T18:12:20","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=11"},"modified":"2002-08-28T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2002-08-28T18:12:20","slug":"i_was_a_politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"I was a political science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a political science major in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snc.edu\/\">college<\/a>, so I always look forward to election years.  This being Minnesota and me being a good Democrat, I plastered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellstone.org\/\">Paul Wellstone<\/a> sticker on the rear window of my van.  This will be a difficult election for the former Carleton professor.  He&#8217;s a two-termer facing a smug, opportunist former mayor of St. Paul.  And much to my disappointment, Minnesota politics is increasingly dominated by the conservative suburbs of the Twin Cities.  But I remain optimistic that things will go well.<br \/>\nI heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbowie.com\/\">David Bowie<\/a> being interviewed on NPR this morning.  I never got into his music much, but his new album sounds great.  I might have to check it out.<br \/>\nIf I see or hear one more story about <b>American Idol<\/b>, I&#8217;m moving to a remote cabin in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/np.html \">Nepal<\/a>.<br \/>\nPeace,<br \/>\nMark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a political science major in college, so I always look forward to election years. This being Minnesota and me being a good Democrat, I plastered a Paul Wellstone sticker on the rear window of my van. This will be a difficult election for the former Carleton professor. He&#8217;s a two-termer facing a smug, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=11' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}