{"id":1839,"date":"2009-03-18T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2009-03-25T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:19:36","slug":"sticks-and-stones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Sticks and Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Goossens really let me have it tonight at the School Board meeting. He&#8217;s offended by my brand of irreverence. From now on I&#8217;ll stick to nice names and phrases. How does this sound? Our school board is just a bunch of bunnies!  Oops, that&#8217;s no good. People might wonder what kind. How about a paraphrase? &#8220;First God created Indianans. That was for practice. Then he created school boards.&#8221; Try copying that phrase and googling it to see what loathsome name-caller said that. Oh, you&#8217;ll want to leave the word &#8220;Indianians&#8221; out of it when you google or your computer will blow up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/images\/simpsons-mob-torches.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/images\/simpsons-mob-torches.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPaul was particularly exercised by this Simpson cartoon which he seemed to think would incite Duluth to storm Old Central. Hey! That&#8217;s not such a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: As an experiment I will attempt to use PG (Paul Goossens) approved adjectives in future blog posts concerning our School Board. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Goossens really let me have it tonight at the School Board meeting. He&#8217;s offended by my brand of irreverence. From now on I&#8217;ll&#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\/1839"}],"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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}