{"id":12086,"date":"2014-11-07T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12086"},"modified":"2014-11-07T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:43:06","slug":"consternation-and-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12086","title":{"rendered":"Consternation and Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran down to Burgraff&#8217;s ACE Hardware to buy a posthole digger to begin the process of preventing my side yard from becoming a sink hole next spring. I said hello to Duluth&#8217;s retired Mayor Gary Doty while shopping. He asked me genially how things were going and I grinned and said that any day I can bring about consternation and mayhem was a good day. The Mayor was quick to reply assuring me, &#8220;Then you&#8217;re having a good day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That led to a friendly discussion about the state of the schools but it didn&#8217;t long. We both had work to attend to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran down to Burgraff&#8217;s ACE Hardware to buy a posthole digger to begin the process of preventing my side yard from becoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086"}],"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=12086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12087,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions\/12087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}