{"id":13021,"date":"2015-03-06T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2015-03-06T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:25:57","slug":"cups-overflowething","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13021","title":{"rendered":"Cups overflowething"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at two this morning and spent two hours pondering the wealth of material I have for March posts. My cup truly runeth over.<\/p>\n<p>Even the modest three posts from two days ago attracted 477 visitors yesterday while I was busy adding more posting material in St. Paul. I figure it will take all of March to get it out. There is no telling how many visitors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/3693663-johnston-files-lawsuit-against-duluth-school-district-board-members\">today&#8217;s front page story<\/a> in the Trib about Art Johnston&#8217;s lawsuit will bring to Lincolndemocrat. I have a lot to say about that. <\/p>\n<p>Art&#8217;s constitutional law attorney Steven Aggergaard was interviewed. Art told me a bit about him on our drive down to St. Paul yesterday. Art asked me about the old tabloid the Ripsaw and wondered if I had ever heard about a case involving it that went to the Supreme Court. He said Aggergaard had recommended the book. I thought back over the last twenty years when it was ressurected by a new generation of muckrackers in Duluth and could recall no Supreme Court Case involving it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51K5JVDQ13L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally I googled it and discovered it was the Ripsaws original incarnation back in the 1920&#8217;s that had plead a first amendment case all the way to the Supreme Court. I was shocked to see that Minnesota Rag was authored by Fred Friendly one of Edward R Murrow&#8217;s old colleagues at CBS. Who knew that our little town was the seat of such an important case as Near vs. Minnesota. I studied that in Constitutional Law back in my college days.<\/p>\n<p>Its not surprising that Attorney Aggergaard would be familiar with that book. He used to be the supervisor of the News Tribune&#8217;s editor Chuck Frederick. As they say in Disneyland &#8220;its a small small world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to start sopping up all that is spilling over my cup in the blog today but I&#8217;m going to play in the snow instead. I got an invitation I can&#8217;t pass up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at two this morning and spent two hours pondering the wealth of material I have for March posts. My cup truly&#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\/13021"}],"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=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13025,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions\/13025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}