{"id":19713,"date":"2017-02-24T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19713"},"modified":"2017-02-24T00:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T05:30:56","slug":"intermission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19713","title":{"rendered":"Intermission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed up late to watch Colbert&#8217;s latest sketch on national politics. I&#8217;m too bushed to begin that post about mulch after all. Instead, I will direct you to the Duluth Reader I just picked up. Loren Martell is still working overtime and has <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/23\/9184_d_ont_f_orget_l_ove\">another column<\/a> in the Reader. I haven&#8217;t read it yet. Meanwhile White Bear Lake made its decision on a new Superintendent tonight. I presume they will announce the results tomorrow. Also, we school board members were emailed an &#8220;embargoed&#8221; summary of our Graduation Rates from the Minnesota Department of Education. Embargoed meaning I am not to spill the beans.<\/p>\n<p>I just read Loren&#8217;s column. Its very thoughtful. It seems to have been prompted by the blog post I put up titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19480\">DFL Monsters?<\/a>&#8221; This was my analysis of Loren&#8217;s last column throwing a little heat at local DFL insiders. Some of my best writing starts from a seed in an email or letter I receive from people parsing what I have written. In the same way I think my post served to crystallize Loren&#8217;s thinking. He&#8217;s in top form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed up late to watch Colbert&#8217;s latest sketch on national politics. I&#8217;m too bushed to begin that post about mulch after all. Instead,&#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\/19713"}],"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=19713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19721,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713\/revisions\/19721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}