{"id":15140,"date":"2015-09-25T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15140"},"modified":"2017-02-23T05:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:24:34","slug":"my-loyal-reader-challenges-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15140","title":{"rendered":"My loyal reader challenges me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal Reader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not to repeat Art&#8217;s Cassandra-like warnings, but&#8230;..is this worth the repercussions of revealing the contents of a closed meeting?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the shit will hit the fan if you do this, and will it even really help Art?  Those who will believe it already believe Art, and those who don&#8217;t believe Art aren&#8217;t going to believe this anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I admire your commitment to transparency.  Truly I do.  It&#8217;s rare to find an elected official who really WANTS the public to know what government is doing.  But this is going to get you in a lot of trouble (fines, maybe, or a lawsuit &#8212; a real reason to kick you off the board).<\/p>\n<p>Is it worth it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes. The truth is its own reward or to paraphrase John 8:32 The truth will set you free. Today John Boehner resigned from the Congress. He&#8217;s free. I admire his decision and suspect it was prompted in large part by listening to Pope Francis yesterday call on Congress to behave itself.<\/p>\n<p>When I was checking out the Bible verse that this paraphrase was based on I also saw a waggish riposte: The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more miserable experience than being on this school board since the Duluth East Graduation in 2014. I&#8217;ve been sitting on what I feel to be the real story and been rebuffed in my attempts to make peace with the warmongers on the Duluth School Board. I&#8217;m so galled that they have poisoned so many people against Art Johnston that quite frankly I would regard their removing me from the Board as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<p>At this moment one of the candidates for the school board keeps reminding us that one or maybe two board members have been the fount of all our problems. I am quite willing to serve with this candidate but I&#8217;ll be damned if he will take office in ignorance of the other side of the story.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15186\">Thou Shalt Not 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal Reader: Not to repeat Art&#8217;s Cassandra-like warnings, but&#8230;..is this worth the repercussions of revealing the contents of a closed meeting? I mean, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140"}],"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=15140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19606,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions\/19606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}