{"id":7335,"date":"2009-04-07T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2009-04-07T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:29:45","slug":"al-franken-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7335","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After counting, Franken&#8217;s lead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gMpTmr96V5hKIfyHT4Av4jsVQgrQD97DOJF01\" target=\"_blank\">increases to 312 votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, Norm Coleman is going to have to recognize that he&#8217;s falling further and further behind at every stage of the process. He&#8217;s going to have to admit defeat. I don&#8217;t know when that day will come &#8212; maybe, as John Cornyn said, it will be years. But Norm Coleman has lost. All he can do at this point is delay the seating of the duly elected Junior Senator from the Great State of Minnesota. That man is Al Franken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After counting, Franken&#8217;s lead increases to 312 votes. At some point, Norm Coleman is going to have to recognize that he&#8217;s falling further and further behind at every stage of the process. He&#8217;s going to have to admit defeat. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}