{"id":7147,"date":"2012-07-31T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2012-07-31T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:57:40","slug":"unendorsed-dayton-supports-endorsed-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Unendorsed Dayton supports Endorsed Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the irony of this. Mark Dayton who got elected Governor without the DFL endorsement is supporting the Eighth District DFL Congressional candidate who got the endorsement Rick Nolan. I would guess that this is mostly a pragmatic decision with Mark looking for the strongest candidate but I&#8217;ll bet he and Nolan feel like fraternity members of the 1970&#8217;s as well when they bot got into politics. <\/p>\n<p>The one line in the email appeal which was sent to me &#8211; twice &#8211; (damn overlapping data bases) that I thought was the funniest suggested that Nolan had once before been the Eighth District&#8217;s representative to Congress: &#8220;And I hope you&#8217;ll help me help him&#8211; because  it&#8217;s time we had a fighter like Rick Nolan representing the 8th once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the irony of this. Mark Dayton who got elected Governor without the DFL endorsement is supporting the Eighth District DFL Congressional candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}