{"id":1575,"date":"2008-12-22T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2008-12-22T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:20:00","slug":"counting-their-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Counting their chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/107870\/\">Today&#8217;s story<\/a> in the Trib has to do with renaming the high schools. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d heard that some East grads were already starting to lobby to keep that name for East. As for Denfeld my old friend Paul Lundgren is right. There would be a bruising and pointless battle if such a change was attempted. It was suggested and dropped in 1978 when Morgan Park students were sent to Denfeld.<\/p>\n<p>I was substitute teaching the following year and the Morgan Park kids had fit in to Denfeld already.<\/p>\n<p>The year before I was running for the legislature against Mike Jaros when the naming issue came up. I got a call from Mr. Denfeld&#8217;s son who balked at the renaming idea. As a legislator I would have had relatively little authority to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>The online comment section is a little more circumspect. It begins: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/chat\/id\/1095\/\">If Duluth Central closes<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s story in the Trib has to do with renaming the high schools. I&#8217;d heard that some East grads were already starting to lobby&#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\/1575"}],"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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}