{"id":1782,"date":"2009-03-01T23:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2009-03-01T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:36:20","slug":"me-an-paul-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Paul Harvey and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Harvey died today. He began his career as one of the nation&#8217;s best known radio reporters just a few months after I was born. <\/p>\n<p>In 1997 my attempt to put a light hearted spin on tense labor negotiations with Duluth&#8217;s teachers was misreported by Mr. Harvey. All America heard his version of the story which our School District immediately corrected. The story was pulled a short time later from the airwaves but not before a local Duluth Station recorded and rebroadcast it. <\/p>\n<p>Years later my wife&#8217;s family in Iowa finally got the nerve to ask her if what they had heard about my casting a voodoo curse on Duluth&#8217;s teachers was true. No, it wasn&#8217;t she assured them. I put a curse on &#8220;ill will&#8221; in the District then stepped down as chairman of the School Board. Too bad the current school board won&#8217;t step aside.<\/p>\n<p>The story still comes out to haunt me periodically. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/RedChronicles\/DirtyDoty.htm\">Ralph Doty made hay about it <\/a>in an effort to defeat me in the last school board election. You can hear the infamous broadcast here <a href=\"http:\/\/welty4congress.com\/VideoTour\/videotour4.htm\">on a website <\/a>devoted to my fanciful recent run for Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Harvey died today. He began his career as one of the nation&#8217;s best known radio reporters just a few months after I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}