{"id":2980,"date":"2011-07-15T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:23:24","slug":"15_minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"15 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a few hours yesterday, a photo of me and Governor Dayton appeared on the homepage of the Star Tribune<\/i>. Here’s the pic:

After the Humphrey Institute event, I briefly chatted with the governor and thanked him for his support of state workers. Several photographers snapped pictures of us, but I didn’t think much of it at the time. Several Star Tribune readers commented that the picture deliberately portrayed Dayton in a sympathetic light by showing him talking with a “wheelchair-bound person.” Of course, expecting enlightened political discourse from Strib commenters is a little like expecting an orgy to break out at Sunday services. I considered posting a brief comment pointing out that I was just one of many invited Humphrey Fellows at the event who briefly spoke with the Governor and that my disability should not be interpreted as a political statement, but then I decided I’d have more fun gaming on my computer. <\/p>\n

I’m still not exactly sure when I’ll be called back to work. It could be as soon as Tuesday if everything goes smoothly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a few hours yesterday, a photo of me and Governor Dayton appeared on the homepage of the Star Tribune. Here’s the pic:After the Humphrey Institute event, I briefly chatted with the governor and thanked him for his support of state workers. Several photographers snapped pictures of us, but I didn’t think much of it […]<\/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-2980","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-M4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}