{"id":10707,"date":"2014-03-11T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2014-03-11T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:58:12","slug":"open-or-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10707","title":{"rendered":"Open or closed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent five hours yesterday morning madly trying to fix my printer for a closed meeting to discuss contract negotiations. I was planning to make a presentation. That left me with three hours to put it together instead of the eight I&#8217;d counted on. It was just as well I lost that time and simply sat on my stack of unsorted evidence. Some Board members are a bit put out with me for talking too much about our contracts on my blog. Even our emails are to remain hushed. I think the one I sent out suggesting that we share everything with the public was particularly poorly received. Sigh! I&#8217;ll probably bite my tongue until the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/293656\/\">the big news<\/a> was the apparent abandoning of closed high school campuses at lunch. When last the public read about this the Board was hell bent for leather to proceed next year. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get home until 8PM, four hours after I&#8217;d left for the School Board. Claudia and I went out for a late dinner when the Trib&#8217;s Jana H. called to ask me about the lunch hour. I told her it was a bit of a surprise to me to see it die with a whimper. I explained that the $200,000 plus price tag accompanying it pretty well did it in because we are, as always, living in an Era of austerity &#8211; that and a lot of angry kids who didn&#8217;t want to be bottled up and teachers who didn&#8217;t want to do the bottling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent five hours yesterday morning madly trying to fix my printer for a closed meeting to discuss contract negotiations. I was planning to&#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\/10707"}],"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=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10709,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}