{"id":1882,"date":"2009-03-28T00:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T05:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2009-03-28T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T05:16:55","slug":"catching-up-and-chuckling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"Catching up and chuckling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be hard for the casual reader of this blog to imagine that I have only just know read all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveourschoolsduluth.com\/\">the legal papers <\/a>that my attorney, Craig Hunter, has filed with the Court. Sad but true. I&#8217;ve had several conversations about it and I&#8217;m quite familiar with most of its particulars but today, away from the constant distractions of Duluth, I finally read all of it. Whoo boy! A couple times I couldn&#8217;t help chuckling. The case, our case, is so obvious. What in Earth did JCI and ISD 709 think they were doing?<\/p>\n<p>For a year I&#8217;ve talked with state  bureaucrats who told me that a School Board&#8217;s polices are essentially window dressing and have no force of law. A hundred years of wisdom poured into a community&#8217;s school board and it is of no relevance!! It was a discouraging thing to hear. That&#8217;s not what my lawyer tells me. <\/p>\n<p>If the lawyers for the District are wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1431\">as they have been before <\/a>this will be sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be hard for the casual reader of this blog to imagine that I have only just know read all the legal papers&#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\/1882"}],"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=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}