{"id":12705,"date":"2015-01-21T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2015-01-21T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:46:05","slug":"the-first-time-i-was-in-a-school-board-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12705","title":{"rendered":"The first time I was in a school board minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t count my first two years on the School Board from 96 to 97 when I was one of two new members my first crack at being in the minority was in the 2000-01 school year. Until this year I thought it was tough back then. Today those years look like a golden age to me.<\/p>\n<p>By that time I was blogging even though that Internet term had barely been invented. I called my work &#8220;the school board diary.&#8221; Just like now school board members who disagreed with me wished I wouldn&#8217;t explain myself and the Board online. I only kept the diary off and on for a couple years. Shortly after I stepped off the school board in 2004 it appeared that all my diary entries had been accidentally deleted. Last year I discovered the Wayback Machine which saves billions of old webpages. It appears I can still access them. Just now I began printing them out to have a paper copy. This is the first of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010227163417\/http:\/\/snowbizz.com\/SchoolBoardDiary\/SBDMar2000\/3-25-00fryingpan.htm\">pages<\/a> I began with. <\/p>\n<p>We were not a harmonious board in 2000 but at least we were a functioning board. I strongly disagreed with my adversaries. I did not have contempt for them. There was no <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=Kevin+Rupp\">Kevin Rupp<\/a> eager to sow seeds of discord to boost his legal service fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t count my first two years on the School Board from 96 to 97 when I was one of two new members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705"}],"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=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}