{"id":10432,"date":"2013-12-09T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2013-12-09T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:31:13","slug":"the-draft-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"The Draft Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came in the mail over the weekend and I need to give it a quick look before today&#8217;s Business meeting. <\/p>\n<p>At Mike Miernicki&#8217;s suggestion I met with Finance Director Bill Hanson a couple weeks ago. Bill generously gave me two hours to review the basic budget which had been placed as an ad in the Duluth News Tribune. It was preliminary and I wanted to review it as a refresher course on Minnesota School finance which is reputedly one of the most complicated in the US. I&#8217;d planned to write an extensive post on the meeting but as my regular readers know I&#8217;ve been AWOL. <\/p>\n<p>No excuses. I&#8217;ve been keeping pretty busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came in the mail over the weekend and I need to give it a quick look before today&#8217;s Business meeting. At Mike Miernicki&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432"}],"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=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10433,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}