{"id":1162,"date":"2006-03-25T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2006-03-25T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T19:14:26","slug":"traditions_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Traditions Are Meant To Be Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just returned from my DFL Senate District Convention.  This is the first time I attended a District Convention and I’m feeling a little ambivalent about the process.  I won’t get into a detailed explanation of the arcane rules behind subcaucusing, but it seems to me that there must be better, more efficient ways of promoting grassroots involvement in the political process.  But the key word in the previous sentence is “arcane.”  The rationale for what we were doing was never clearly explained and I’m not sure how it contributes to selecting a better slate of candidates.  Perhaps that’s simply the nature of the beast.  To paraphrase Will Rogers, I’m not a member of any organized political party.  I’m a Democrat. <\/DIV>
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I’m tempted to limit my political involvement to contributing money to the candidates I support and voting on Election Day, but I think the temporary cynicism I’m feeling will pass.  I just need to find a way to engage in politics that is more meaningful to me.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just returned from my DFL Senate District Convention.  This is the first time I attended a District Convention and I’m feeling a little ambivalent about the process.  I won’t get into a detailed explanation of the arcane rules behind subcaucusing, but it seems to me that there must be better, more efficient ways of […]<\/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-1162","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-iK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}