{"id":11572,"date":"2014-09-06T03:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2014-09-06T03:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T08:30:45","slug":"martell-is-back-in-fine-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11572","title":{"rendered":"Martell is back in fine form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Loren Martell&#8217;s latest column detailing the antics of the Duluth School Board at its August meeting on the Duluth Reader&#8217;s website. It will only take you ten minutes to read the pertinent details described versus watching the events described unfold over the meeting&#8217;s first 35 minutes on the archived and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIv7tg3FjCs\">youtubed video<\/a> of the meeting. I had put off reading the story for a week owing to a reluctance to revisit the will of the majority to race forward with its eyes shut. However, I read it online while Pandora pumped out Copeland&#8217;s Appalachian Spring in the background and the jaunty music was the prefect accompaniment to Loren&#8217;s written word. <\/p>\n<p>As good as Loren&#8217;s explanation of the minority&#8217;s futility and impotence even he could not improve upon Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11505\">Schuettler&#8217;s description<\/a> of the Chairman swatting away gnats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Loren Martell&#8217;s latest column detailing the antics of the Duluth School Board at its August meeting on the Duluth Reader&#8217;s website&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572"}],"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=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}