{"id":2976,"date":"2009-06-30T18:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2009-06-30T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:27:43","slug":"al-franken-wins-election-to-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken wins election to the US Senate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Summer Moon<\/p>\n<p>Al Franken wins election to the US Senate.\u00a0 Boy, these election returns took a really, really long time to come in.\u00a0 The election was in November of last year and today is the last day of June.\u00a0 We have gone through Samhain, Winter, Imbolc, Spring, Beltane and into Summer while waiting on this decision.\u00a0 Finally.<\/p>\n<p>He was not my favorite, his politics and his manner jarring to me.\u00a0 Norm Coleman was certainly not my favorite.\u00a0 Still, Franken is a Democrat and he will caucus with the Democrats.\u00a0 He may have provided the necessary vote to pass cap and trade.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the museum today for a confab with other docents touring the pre-Raph show.\u00a0 So much there, so much.\u00a0 Only scratched the surface have I.\u00a0 Not yet ready me.\u00a0 But soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Summer Moon Al Franken wins election to the US Senate.\u00a0 Boy, these election returns took a really, really long time to come in.\u00a0 The election was in November of last year and today is the last day of June.\u00a0 We have gone through Samhain, Winter, Imbolc, Spring, Beltane and into Summer while waiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2976\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Franken wins election to the US Senate.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,100],"tags":[1637],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics","tag-al-franken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}