{"id":2351,"date":"2009-06-30T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:18:30","slug":"we_have_a_winne_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2351","title":{"rendered":"We Have A Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my neighbor, Al Franken, on finally emerging as the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/06\/30\/supcoruling_senate\/\">official victor of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race<\/a>. Today&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling brings an end to a political race that stretches back through the mists of time into early 2007. As a friend pointed out, I am now represented by a Jew, a <a href=\"http:\/\/klobuchar.senate.gov\/\">woman<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/ellison.house.gov\/\">black Muslim<\/a>. Minnesota: it&#8217;s like a bigger version of Berkeley but without the legalized pot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my neighbor, Al Franken, on finally emerging as the official victor of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race. Today&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling brings an end to a political race that stretches back through the mists of time into early 2007. As a friend pointed out, I am now represented by a Jew, a woman, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2351' 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-2351","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-BV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","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=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}