{"id":14842,"date":"2015-09-12T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14842"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:14:57","slug":"fond-farewells-morgan-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14842","title":{"rendered":"Fond Farewell&#8217;s- Morgan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s paper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/3837525-morgan-park-school-slated-demolition-alumni-get-chance-look-inside\">a story<\/a> about the closing of the 99-year old Morgan Park School and today&#8217;s open house where alumni and others can get one last look at the school. Aaron Schweiger is hoping to have better luck wooing MP residents than he had with Rockridge&#8217;s neighbors. The Open House will be run from 10AM until 3PM. <\/p>\n<p>I started substitute teaching the last year that Morgan Park was a high school and I often subbed for my friend, DFL Senator Sam Solon, while he was in St. Paul legislating. Sam taught social studies there. Later I got a two-year gig teaching at the school where I had Alanna Oswald (Then Rogers) in my class. Before that I had taken my Proctor boys swimming teams to the MP pool for swimming meets. It was brand spanking new in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad died just after I finished my last year teaching at the school and learned that I wouldn&#8217;t be getting tenure. Had these twin blows not occurred I wouldn&#8217;t have become a snow sculptor. Life goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s paper has a story about the closing of the 99-year old Morgan Park School and today&#8217;s open house where alumni and others can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-sb-election","category-harry-welty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=14842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}