{"id":26468,"date":"2020-07-01T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26468"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:39:35","slug":"my-kind-of-congressional-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/my-kind-of-congressional-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kind Of Congressional Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall Qualls is running for Congress in Minnesota, but he&#8217;s got a bio <a href=\"https:\/\/kendallforcongress.com\/america-the-exceptional-my-response-to-dean-phillips-and-his-vision-of-america-as-systemically-racist\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I can understand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am also going to tell you that in spite of spending part of my childhood in a crime and drug-infested housing project in Harlem, in spite of spending the other part in a trailer park in rural Oklahoma, and in spite of having to work nights and weekends to put myself through school, I made it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The projects and the trailer park?  I know where he&#8217;s coming from.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the piece argues against his opponent&#8217;s Statement on Racism\/White Privilege\/Etc.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/06\/a-voice-of-sanity-and-truth.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerline<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall Qualls is running for Congress in Minnesota, but he&#8217;s got a bio I can understand: I am also going to tell you that in spite of spending part of my childhood in a crime and drug-infested housing project in Harlem, in spite of spending the other part in a trailer park in rural Oklahoma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26469,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26468\/revisions\/26469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}