{"id":10137,"date":"2013-10-17T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2013-10-17T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:51:50","slug":"an-idealists-job-is-never-done-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10137","title":{"rendered":"An idealist&#8217;s job is never done and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;a request for help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perseverance can be exhausting. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A. Tried to teach but was canned three times.<br \/>\nB. Tried to get elected to the State legislature twice before the GOP went haywire but lost.<br \/>\nC. Tried to get elected to the School Board three times but lost, won the fourth and fifth time.<br \/>\nD. Tried to run for the legislature as a moderate Republican distrusted by Democrats and new super &#8220;conservative&#8221; Republicans twice more, lost.<br \/>\nE. Tried to run for Congress as an Independent twice, lost.<br \/>\nF. Tried to win vote on the Red Plan for four years but thwarted at every turn.<br \/>\nG. Been running to undo Red Plan damage for three months after hinting I might run for three earlier months.<br \/>\nH. I have passed out close to 1,200 flyers door to door and put up about 225 lawnsigns. I&#8217;ve posted a hundred thousand words easy since I began campaigning, often in the dead of the night when I can&#8217;t sleep. Yesterday a black lab rounded a corner and growled at me. Fortunately I&#8217;m not easily frightened. He settled down and licked my hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s me. I told the lab&#8217;s owner that &#8220;I take a licking and keep on ticking.&#8221; However I am running on fumes and could use a pick me up.<\/p>\n<p>One quick request: I sure would like to see someone write a letter to the Duluth News Tribune telling readers I&#8217;ve got more than just dumb perseverance to recommend me for the School Board. You can do it the old fashioned way by sending snail mail to: Letters, Duluth News Tribune, 424 W 1st St., Duluth, MN 55802 <\/p>\n<p>or you can email an epistle to: letters@duluthnews.com<\/p>\n<p>Hey! I wouldn&#8217;t even mind a good kick in the keister. That would motivate me too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a request for help. Perseverance can be exhausting. A. Tried to teach but was canned three times. B. Tried to get elected to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}