{"id":15153,"date":"2015-09-27T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15153"},"modified":"2015-09-28T04:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:44:32","slug":"a-10-minute-explanation-of-this-blog-for-new-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=15153","title":{"rendered":"A 10 minute explanation of this blog for new readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have ten minutes till I have to pick someone up for Church so here goes.<\/p>\n<p>About 150 more people are paying a call on Lincoln Democrat daily now than at the beginning of the year. There will be close to 4,000 occasional readers of the blog this month. I presume, although I could be wrong, that most are Duluth residents. Some like me. Some detest me. Most are the folks who are the semi-wonks who follow the school board and want to know what&#8217;s happening in the schools. More are peeking at the blog now because of the looming election just 40 days away.<\/p>\n<p>This post is meant to explain to my new readers things I&#8217;ve explained to old readers before. So, old readers, bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>I am only fussy about making my ideas clear not submitting to an English teacher for a grade on grammer or spelling.<br \/>\nThe last post was written up in one session and I&#8217;m sure, as with all such posts, when I review it for corrections I&#8217;ll wince at obvious mistakes. I may not take the time to improve it because my regular readers know by now that I can turn out a pretty polished piece of prose when I want to. In that respect looking at some of my posts is rather like looking at my snow sculptures a day or two before I&#8217;m finally finished with them. They are rough drafts that I may not get around to correcting. I&#8217;m busy.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next forty days I&#8217;ll be doing my best to support a couple candidates for the school board. If you are reading this once or twice a week you know who I&#8217;m supporting and why. We need a new school board focused on education. Yesterday&#8217;s three posts in one is a reminder to all my readers that these and many more educational issues are what we should be focusing on not a feud between school board members.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I am determined to explain to all my readers just how stupid and nasty the fight has been. Its a fight that is seven years old and frankly, I think the people of Duluth should know just how the institutional side has carried out this fight. I&#8217;ve written much about &#8220;Character Assassination.&#8221; When I resume writing about this current history &#8211; that I hope will soon be past history &#8211; I&#8217;ll detail what I&#8217;ve seen and witnessed. That&#8217;s because I wish to help rehabilitate Art Johnston&#8217;s character in the eyes of folks who have wanted to believe all the stories about how awful he has been. <\/p>\n<p>I have been working harder to polish up my pieces for the new eyes reading over the blog but I won&#8217;t always make time to do this. I have a family that I&#8217;m giving more priority to than I have in the past. If you don&#8217;t like my typos, tough. Pay attention to the content.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go and pick up my fellow parishioner. Adios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have ten minutes till I have to pick someone up for Church so here goes. About 150 more people are paying a call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153"}],"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=15153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15156,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}