{"id":5229,"date":"2014-08-17T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2014-08-17T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T18:09:58","slug":"tipping-sacred-cows-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/tipping-sacred-cows-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping sacred cows in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we’ll have pun, pun, pun<\/a> ’til our daddy takes the keyboard away…<\/em><\/p>\n

Chicago Tribune (bonus points for using the word ‘kerfuffle’):<\/a><\/p>\n

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is milking an Upstate-Downstate kerfuffle with Republican Bruce Rauner’s running mate over an udderly moooo-ving issue: Cow Tipping.<\/em><\/p>\n

Quinn suggested Republican lieutenant governor candidate Evelyn Sanguinetti should issue an apology to the state’s cow population over what she says amounted to a “jovial” reference about tipping them over….<\/em><\/p>\n

“They deserve to stand up right, and we’re proud of our cows, and the Illinois cows are the best there ever was,” Quinn said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The actual comment, made in early 2013, was,\u00a0\u201cIsn’t cow tipping a work requirement in Springfield (LOL)?\u201d\u00a0Springfield’s paper, very upset that its city’s ox got gored, wrote an editorial calling for an apology<\/a>. Chicago has always had a beef about Springfield being the capital, downstate Illinois feels like it’s been put out to pasture, and everyone is going to milk this until the cows come home.<\/p>\n

Were Illinois’ cattle rustled by this remark or just a-moo-sed? We’ll have to ruminate on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And we’ll have pun, pun, pun ’til our daddy takes the keyboard away… Chicago Tribune (bonus points for using the word ‘kerfuffle’): Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is milking an Upstate-Downstate kerfuffle with Republican Bruce Rauner’s running mate over an udderly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}