{"id":4178,"date":"2013-11-01T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T00:38:12","slug":"thoughts-on-the-minneapolis-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4178","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On The Minneapolis Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I voted early today for Minneapolis mayor. None of the candidates possess R.T. Rybak&#8217;s charm or vision, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/229326721.html\">Betsy Hodges<\/a> strikes me as the most progressive of the bunch. She has a passion for addressing inequality, which may translate into more concerted efforts to narrow the city&#8217;s glaring racial disparities. Hodges may also be able to push for further modernization of our transit system and bring more decent-paying jobs to the city.<\/p>\n<p>As for City Council, I wrote in myself because I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to vote for Lisa Goodman&#8217;s bland leadership again. Her votes against several urban density projects have left me frustrated and I don&#8217;t know that she has any real notion of how to run a 21st century city. Somebody really needs to replace her in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted early today for Minneapolis mayor. None of the candidates possess R.T. Rybak&#8217;s charm or vision, but Betsy Hodges strikes me as the most progressive of the bunch. She has a passion for addressing inequality, which may translate into more concerted efforts to narrow the city&#8217;s glaring racial disparities. Hodges may also be able <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4178' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-politics","category-27-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-15o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}