{"id":8469,"date":"2010-08-02T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/02\/politically-speaking\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T22:07:24","slug":"politically-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/politically-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Speaking &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the American Teabagging Party is very diverse after all.  They  have all sorts of nutbags and morans amongst their members:  <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/tea-party-diversity-event-pretty-much\">Tea Party Diversity Event <\/a>at Crooks and Liars.<\/p>\n<p>Mn Guv Candidate picks up key <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/99663814.html?page=1&#038;c=y\">endorsement from the Star Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And, in that very same race, the Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/state\/99695934.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr\">hold a lead<\/a> in early polls against Republican candidate Emmer.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesotans: Check out MnAtheist <a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2010\/07\/august-events-calendar-from-minnesota-atheists\/\">events<\/a> for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the American Teabagging Party is very diverse after all. They have all sorts of nutbags and morans amongst their members: Tea Party Diversity Event at Crooks and Liars. Mn Guv Candidate picks up key endorsement from the Star Tribune. &#8230; And, in that very same race, the Democrats hold a lead in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/politically-speaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politically Speaking &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2cB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}