{"id":1140,"date":"2008-03-29T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:49:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:49:22","slug":"the-illusion-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"The illusion of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil Swing, a former editor for the Duluth News Tribune and new columnist for the Duluth Budgeteer, has a very worthwhile column in this weekend&#8217;s Budgeteer:<\/p>\n<p>Money quote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some Red Plan supporters say critics are only a loud minority and the &#8220;silent majority&#8221; favors it. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a foolproof way to test that theory. It&#8217;s called an election. The board should schedule one quickly. Then, when voters shoot down the $293 million plan, officials can look at more sensible solutions. There are already some floating around.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=21887&#038;section=Columnists&#038;columnist=Virgil%20Swing\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil Swing, a former editor for the Duluth News Tribune and new columnist for the Duluth Budgeteer, has a very worthwhile column in this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20955,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}