{"id":1599,"date":"2009-01-02T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:45:37","slug":"the-tie-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"The tie breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll let this little gem of a letter which showed up along side Mimi&#8217;s today punctuate this little tete-a-tete between Mimi and me. Mr. Nelson lives in Hermantown so he is probably a fairly neutral observer unless he&#8217;s galled at <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1565\">the influx of Duluth kids into his school district<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1444\">a related post <\/a>about the 60 Duluth kids in the Wrenshall schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Published January 02 2009<br \/>\n<strong>School Board out of touch with Duluth homeowners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few of the things I have heard said recently about the Duluth School Board include: &#8220;Now that you&#8217;ve voted for us, drop dead.&#8221; &#8220;New buildings for fewer students.&#8221; &#8220;Out of touch with the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I was one of the Duluth homeowners about to lose my property because of the red plan, I would never buy another house in Independent School District 709. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Nelson<\/p>\n<p>Hermantown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll let this little gem of a letter which showed up along side Mimi&#8217;s today punctuate this little tete-a-tete between Mimi and me. Mr&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20844,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/20844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}