{"id":12357,"date":"2014-12-12T23:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T04:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2014-12-12T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T04:23:00","slug":"it-takes-two-to-tangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12357","title":{"rendered":"It takes two to tangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Sam Cook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/features-weekend\/sam-cook-column-front-lines-education-3632948\">thoughtful column<\/a> today with interest. I don&#8217;t usually read his columns because I don&#8217;t hunt and I rarely fish but I like Sam&#8217;s style. Back when I had a mustache I&#8217;d have people confuse me with him much to my amusement. I thought it was funny partly because we both got our start in Kansas although we both mostly lost our drawls ages ago.<\/p>\n<p>If I were where Sam is I&#8217;d probably have written much the same column. I&#8217;m not however so I&#8217;ll have to hew to all the posts I&#8217;ve put in this blog going back to the Ice Age. I would guess that Sam heard from his Kansas mother what my Kansas mother told me on several occasions as I was growing up. &#8220;It takes two to have a fight.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is an important corollary to this rustic old saying and that is &#8211; It takes two to end a quarrel.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/11\/4495_all_aboard_the_loony_train\">Loren Martell makes clear<\/a> &#8211; our quarrel is a donnybrook.<\/p>\n<p>For my part I tell anyone who will listen that our situation reminds me of an old African proverb: &#8220;When elephants fight the grass gets trampled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this case the grass is the 24 bright young high school students Sam met in an English composition class. I hope that our two sides remain mindful of the grass below our big stumpy feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Sam Cook&#8217;s thoughtful column today with interest. I don&#8217;t usually read his columns because I don&#8217;t hunt and I rarely fish but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357"}],"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=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12360,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions\/12360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}