{"id":2008,"date":"2011-05-02T16:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:03:31","slug":"breaking-news-or-make-room-for-one-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS&#8230; or &#8220;Make Room For One More?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Unknown1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Unknown1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Unknown\" width=\"197\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2011\" \/><\/a>Could it be that the Republican race for Montana&#8217;s open governor&#8217;s seat is getting more crowded by the minute?   Looks like Senator<a href=\"http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/article_47df2f6e-74e9-11e0-ae8c-001cc4c002e0.html\"> Ryan Zinke<\/a> (R-Whitefish) may be testing the waters as a prelude to joining an already crowded field.  Rumors about a possible run started winding through the capitol hallways about midpoint in the session, and floor speeches ZInke made in the waning days of the often contentious and mind-numbingly partisan debates were decidedly statesmanlike and often as conciliatory as could be found this year.<\/p>\n<p>Folks from the Flathead area have been telling us to keep an eye out for Zinke for a while now.  He&#8217;s a very bright guy and obviously has been tested and found capable as well as worthy of being a member of one of this country&#8217;s elite military groups. That certainly brings some credibility to a possible candidacy. <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what develops in the next few weeks.  There&#8217;s a long way to go until November, 2012 &#8211; or more precisely June, 2012.  I didn&#8217;t follow his votes all that closely, so a little research is in order.  <\/p>\n<p>But, damn, you do have to look twice at a guy in a U.S. Navy uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that the Republican race for Montana&#8217;s open governor&#8217;s seat is getting more crowded by the minute? Looks like Senator Ryan Zinke (R-Whitefish) may be testing the waters as a prelude to joining an already crowded field. Rumors &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}