{"id":14411,"date":"2015-08-18T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14411"},"modified":"2015-08-18T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:06:31","slug":"a-lawn-comes-back-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14411","title":{"rendered":"A lawn comes back to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor of city council candidate, Kriss Osbakken, has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/letters\/3818730-readers-view-osbakken-doesnt-care-public-boulevard\">letter to the editor<\/a> saying her lawn is unkempt&#8230;.beyond unkempt.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time this native planting has been commented on. I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/Tanked.htm\">reference<\/a> to it in one of my columns in the Reader back in 2002:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>AFSCME, the public employee&#8217;s union, has just endorsed Green Party Candidate Kris Osbakken for St. Louis County Commissioner as well as DFLer Peg Sweeney who fought against the &#8220;one man one vote&#8221; redistricting so she wouldn&#8217;t have to run for reelection. For her part, Osbakken is a devoted environmentalist. Her lawn is as infamous along Glendale Street for its spring green as my house is for its winter white. A chest high tangle of nondescript vegetation hides her house and is explained by a weathered plastic sign from the &#8220;Green Thumb Project.&#8221; It boasts that the lawn is &#8220;pesticide free&#8221; and sports the slogan, &#8220;Great Lakes &#8211; Great Lawns.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a comfort to learn that all it takes to be a good environmentalist is to avoid yard work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kriss was a candidate in that election too.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always intrigued how small a town Duluth can be. The letter writer is one of the organizers of the Ross Perot campaign that I worked with back in 1992. She was my neighbor back then. <\/p>\n<p>Kriss was a little hurt by my comment back 2002 but she has persevered in her green thumb gardening. Evidently its not every neighbor&#8217;s cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor of city council candidate, Kriss Osbakken, has written a letter to the editor saying her lawn is unkempt&#8230;.beyond unkempt. This is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411"}],"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=14411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14413,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}