{"id":6904,"date":"2009-02-10T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:46:52","slug":"god-backs-norm-coleman-says-norm-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6904","title":{"rendered":"God Backs Norm Coleman, Says Norm Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NormColeman_TouchedByGod_smaller.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Speaking on wingnut radio Friday, MN&#8217;s former Republican Senator Norm Coleman <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.umn.edu\/cspg\/smartpolitics\/2009\/02\/coleman_says_god_wants_me_to_s.php\">announced<\/a>: &#8220;God wants me to serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No explanation was offered, however, for why God <i>seems<\/i> to have <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6892\">given more votes<\/a> to his challenger, the apparent winner of the U.S. Senate race there, Democrat Al Franken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on wingnut radio Friday, MN&#8217;s former Republican Senator Norm Coleman announced: &#8220;God wants me to serve.&#8221; No explanation was offered, however, for why God seems to have given more votes to his challenger, the apparent winner of the U.S. Senate race there, Democrat Al Franken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,122,219,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-franken","category-election-2008","category-minnesota","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}