{"id":224,"date":"2009-07-02T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:24:37","slug":"al-franken-recovers-wellstones-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/al-franken-recovers-wellstones-senate-seat","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken recovers Wellstone&#8217;s senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a very close race and extended legal battle, Al Franken is finally going to be seated as the junior Senator from Minnesota, joining Amy Klobuchar in the fight to return <a title=\"Boundary Waters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boundary_Waters\">a beautiful midwestern state<\/a> to its <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/murdoch-press-blows-gasket-over-franken-victory.php#comment-3514503\">progressive roots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So now the GOP feels like the floor fell out from beneath them. In a way I sympathize, but then I remember the bumper stickers after Wellstone&#8217;s death that said &#8220;he&#8217;s dead, get over it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.nps.gov\/applications\/nature\/photos\/ACF2F50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229 alignnone\" title=\"voyageurs_national_park\" src=\"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/voyageurs_national_park-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"voyageurs_national_park\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/voyageurs_national_park-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/voyageurs_national_park.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very close race and extended legal battle, Al Franken is finally going to be seated as the junior Senator from Minnesota, joining Amy Klobuchar in the fight to return a beautiful midwestern state to its progressive roots: So now the GOP feels like the floor fell out from beneath them. In a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[70,100],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-minnesota","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}