{"id":532,"date":"2004-07-13T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=532"},"modified":"2004-07-13T20:21:40","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T20:21:40","slug":"lines_are_open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Lines Are Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/13\/ditka.reut\/index.html\">Ditka<\/a>?   :snicker:  Ditka?  :giggling uncontrollably:  The Illinois GOP really is desperate.  Ditka is no Schwarzenegger; Schwarzenegger at least had some political connections and a basic grasp of the issues.  Ditka is a pitchman.  He can sell little pills for male impotence, but I can&#8217;t see him having a serious debate with Obama about Social Security or Iraq.  It would be embarrassing.  Let&#8217;s hope Illinois Republicans come to their senses and realize that the Senate election is a lost cause for them this time around.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written before about my involvement with <a href=\"http:\/\/mn.vsarts.org\/programs.html\">VSA Arts of Minnesota<\/a>, a non-profit that promotes access to the arts for people with disabilities.  They promote artists with disabilities and bring artists into the classrooms to work with kids with disabilities.  We&#8217;re having a silent auction in September and I&#8217;m on the hunt for donations.  If any of my readers can hook me up with sports tickets, theater tickets, gift certificates, or other goodies in the Twin Cities area, drop me a line.  I&#8217;m working my personal network as well, but I figure what good is a blog if you can&#8217;t beg once in a while on behalf of a good cause?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditka? :snicker: Ditka? :giggling uncontrollably: The Illinois GOP really is desperate. Ditka is no Schwarzenegger; Schwarzenegger at least had some political connections and a basic grasp of the issues. Ditka is a pitchman. He can sell little pills for male impotence, but I can&#8217;t see him having a serious debate with Obama about Social Security <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=532' 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","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-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}