{"id":18961,"date":"2017-01-11T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2017-01-12T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:13:01","slug":"art-johnston-and-i-cant-wait-to-meet-our-favorite-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18961","title":{"rendered":"ART JOHNSTON AND I CAN&#8217;T WAIT TO MEET OUR FAVORITE VENDOR&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at the Minnesota School Board Association Conference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/733\/31880652540_fc44a0ba10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They will probably be passing out chocolates to school board members at the exhibition hall tomorrow. My Mother warned me not to take candy from such people.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally&#8230;.. <strong>NOTE TO TARDY VISITORS OF THIS BLOG &#8211; I HAVE TEMPORARILY REMOVED TWO PARAGRAPHS OF VERY INTERESTING INFO AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND. EARLY BIRDS DID GET TO READ IT &#8211; THOSE LUCKIES! I&#8217;LL PUT IT BACK AND MAKE SURE REGULAR READERS WILL GET A CHANCE TO CATCH UP AT A LATER DATE.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAh, but they had the political will to try to remove the one Board member who did want to pursue justice.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a great conference. Most of our Board members were present in the labor contract negotiations session tonight when I asked the presenter if there was any reason any citizen could be kept out of caucus of Management after a negotiations session. They were all there to hear the presenter tell me exactly what he told me at a similar presentation three years ago &#8211; &#8220;NO!&#8221; This included the one Board member who was permitted to attend such a caucus as a member of our staff <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12640\">barred the door and told me I couldn&#8217;t attend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at the Minnesota School Board Association Conference. They will probably be passing out chocolates to school board members at the exhibition hall tomorrow. My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961"}],"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=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18970,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions\/18970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}