{"id":10907,"date":"2010-01-19T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:17:51","slug":"the-end-of-the-neo-pros-the-beginning-of-real-nastiness-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10907\/the-end-of-the-neo-pros-the-beginning-of-real-nastiness-or-both\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Neo-Pros, the Beginning of Real Nastiness&#8230; or Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worm is turning.\u00a0 Now for the real question: is it too late?\u00a0 Are we left with ugly but self-interested <em>politicians<\/em>, who run for the middle &#8211;\u00a0 or elitist <em>Neo-Pros<\/em>, who take Chicago politics to a new level? 2010&#8217;s going to be a bumpy ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kzBlzNZVT0w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100120\/ap_on_el_se\/us_massachusetts_senate\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worm is turning.\u00a0 Now for the real question: is it too late?\u00a0 Are we left with ugly but self-interested politicians, who run for the middle &#8211;\u00a0 or elitist Neo-Pros, who take Chicago politics to a new level? 2010&#8217;s going to be a bumpy ride&#8230; More here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9874,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9874\/the-i-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":10907,"position":0},"title":"The &#8220;I&#8221; News","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"September 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Monday everyone.\u00a0 Sean here, with the \"I\" news team bringing you a few under-reported items from last week.\u00a0 Stay tuned for the Inspirational, the Inscrutable and the Indefensible.\u00a0 You decide if any of it is Indispensable. 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