{"id":1428,"date":"2008-08-27T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2008-08-27T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:04:21","slug":"a-small-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"A small irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1426\">Walk Down Memory Lane post <\/a>I linked to an old column I wrote called &#8220;Liar liar pants on fire.&#8221; It was about how I broke a promise not to raise taxes. <\/p>\n<p>There is one interesting detail I didn&#8217;t mention in that column. I was coerced to make that promise by my buddy, Tim Grover, who was then a tax phobic conservative. He wouldn&#8217;t go along with the 1997 operational levy without a fight unless all the other school board members promised not to raise property taxes over and above those approved by the voters. Tim and I used to joke about how I proved I couldn&#8217;t be trusted. He&#8217;s not the Board member who sent me email. <\/p>\n<p>Today our roles are reversed. Tim is supporting the bank busting Red Plan (Because he thinks it can&#8217;t be stopped and he wants to save what little is left of public schools in his District) and I am the tax fighting maniac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Walk Down Memory Lane post I linked to an old column I wrote called &#8220;Liar liar pants on fire.&#8221; It was about&#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\/1428"}],"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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}