{"id":1243,"date":"2008-05-15T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2008-05-15T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T16:30:42","slug":"i-can-see-clearly-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"I can see clearly now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All four local TV networks were waiting for me as I drove up to our billboard to explain the rationale for having Duluth Voters call the Governor. It was a bright sunshiney day. Good Questions, Good humor, Good points, Sour circumstances. I&#8217;ll be out of town so I&#8217;ll miss all the coverage tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>On my way to the Press Conference I got a call from our local public television station. Let Duluth Vote was asked to be in a debate with the newly formed Move Duluth Forward into Hell. Oops! My bad. I keep adding letters to their acronym.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, none of their spokesmen are available for this Friday&#8217;s Almanac North so a debate\/discussion will have to follow on some other Friday possibly after the School District offers their bids for as much of the Red Plan as they can get.<\/p>\n<p>I told the producer not to worry. Our group will never give in until a new school board is elected next year. We have, as I told the reporters this morning, several avenues to pursue to dent and cripple the Red Plan before it drains the Duluth schools of life.<\/p>\n<p>As I came home from the press conference under a sunny sky <em><strong>I can see clearly now <\/strong><\/em>was playing on the soft rock channel I rarely listen to. I couldn&#8217;t help but sing along.<\/p>\n<p>I can see clearly now the rain is gone<br \/>\nI can see all obstacles in my way<br \/>\nGone are the dark clouds that had me blind<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin&#8217; day<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin&#8217; day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four local TV networks were waiting for me as I drove up to our billboard to explain the rationale for having Duluth Voters&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}