{"id":12111,"date":"2014-11-08T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2014-11-08T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:21:33","slug":"there-is-no-there-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12111","title":{"rendered":"There is no there, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well. After posting Part 1 and especially Part 2 it will be much harder for me to bring peace to the School Board. Remember I only claim to be honest, not truthful. I wish Mark Twain was a better guide: Here are a couple of his suggestions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the moment the Superintendent, and perhaps the majority of the School Board are mightily resisting the efforts of the Civility Project to help get us together in a kumbaya gathering. The excuse seems to be that it would be a mistake while Mary Rice&#8217;s investigation is in process. Well, we can&#8217;t hide behind that excuse any more. <\/p>\n<p>I like to sing and Kumbaya is a hopeful song. I just won&#8217;t sing it while hiding my crossed fingers behind my back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well. After posting Part 1 and especially Part 2 it will be much harder for me to bring peace to the School Board&#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":[],"class_list":["post-12111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111","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=12111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}