{"id":1333,"date":"2008-07-05T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2008-07-06T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:35:10","slug":"how-we-got-to-be-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"How we got to be idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us think history can help explain idiot decisions. Here&#8217;s former School Board member Tony Stauber&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=22476&#038;section=Opinion&#038;freebie_check&#038;CFID=53742354&#038;CFTOKEN=69311803&#038;jsessionid=8830fd144b27b4117e36\">brief history <\/a>explaining how we got to the Red Plan. It was published in today&#8217;s Budgeteer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the key passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The district was short-sighted to demand the consultants, in the development of the long-range plan, use only the middle school configuration of K-5, 6-8 and 9-12, whereas a K-6, 7-9 and 10-12 configuration would have allowed remodeling of present buildings, negating the need for most new construction \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and costing about one-third of the Red Plan. Few homes would go under eminent domain, and parking in congested sites would be handled with a policy change at no cost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us think history can help explain idiot decisions. Here&#8217;s former School Board member Tony Stauber&#8217;s brief history explaining how we got to&#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\/1333"}],"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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}