{"id":1145,"date":"2006-03-08T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2006-03-08T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:26:13","slug":"quick_do_stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Quick, Do Stuart Smalley!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet my precinct caucus had more celebrities than yours.  I arrived a few minutes late and as I was settling in, I glanced at the person sitting across from me.  “Hey,” I thought, “that guy looks like Al Franken<\/A>.”  And I had a very good reason for thinking that because he was, in fact, Al Franken.  Apparently, we’re neighbors.  He was quite attentive during the caucus process and acted as the unofficial vote counter for the assorted delegate elections.  We chatted for a couple minutes after the caucus was finished and he was unassuming and pleasant.  I’ve heard the rumors that Franken might be considering a run for the Senate in 2008 and I have no idea if his presence at the caucus was in any way connected with those plans. <\/DIV>
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But now that I know he lives nearby, I’m going to try inviting him to my next party in a shameless effort to impress my friends.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet my precinct caucus had more celebrities than yours.  I arrived a few minutes late and as I was settling in, I glanced at the person sitting across from me.  “Hey,” I thought, “that guy looks like Al Franken.”  And I had a very good reason for thinking that because he was, in fact, […]<\/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-1145","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-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}