{"id":1403,"date":"2008-08-20T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T03:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2008-08-20T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T03:34:26","slug":"the-supers-5000-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"The Super&#8217;s $5000 bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board voted 6 &#8211; 1 to give Dr. Dixon a bonus last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=72440&#038;section=None\">Here&#8217;s the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that most School Board members would have worried that not granting Dr. Dixon his $5000 raise would have signaled a lack of confidence in him. I don&#8217;t know if it occurred to them that granting it would also be like waving a red cape under the nose of a bull. The Trib&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/talk\/index.cfm?id=910&#038;talk_page=1\">comment section <\/a>makes this clear. This Board doesn&#8217;t understand the power of symbolism. Of course, they don&#8217;t seem to understand the importance of democracy either so maybe I should cut them some slack.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise even one of Dr. Dixon&#8217;s greatest admirers, Bevan S., publicly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/talk\/index.cfm?id=910&#038;talk_page=3\">admitted it was bad politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;However, I do hope that Dr. Dixon, having earned his &#8220;bonus&#8221; that was part of his compensation package, would, in a very public manner, decline to accept it!!! &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board voted 6 &#8211; 1 to give Dr. Dixon a bonus last night. Here&#8217;s the story. I&#8217;m sure that most School Board members&#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\/1403"}],"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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}