{"id":1999,"date":"2009-04-23T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2009-04-23T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:33:28","slug":"taking-my-lumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"Taking my lumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though only a few Red Plan supporters showed up at Tuesday&#8217;s school board meeting they had a field day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/comments\/id\/118350\/\">roasting me on the Trib&#8217;s comment page.<\/a> If you too are mad at me you may enjoy this.<\/p>\n<p>The audience wasn&#8217;t happy last night and they acted like tens of thousands of angry audiences before. They were far more tame than a couple audiences I faced down as a Board member but the angry questions hurled at Board members and the initial booing which tapered off after the first twenty or so minutes didn&#8217;t serve their cause. It mostly gave Red Plan lovers a reason to call them impolite.<\/p>\n<p>I understand this. When I was on the Board getting beat up I always told my supporters that &#8220;if you can&#8217;t get passionate about your children what can you get passionate about?&#8221; I mentioned this to Mimi Larson today when she saw me at, of all places, Mount Royal Fine Foods. She genially walked over and we talked about getting together over a cup of coffee. <\/p>\n<p>In the same way I know the catcalls stiffened the resolve of the Board members the comments directed at me have only served to stiffen my resolve. <\/p>\n<p>Chairman Mao once said, and he was probably paraphrasing some other tyrant, &#8220;the nail that stands too tall gets hammered down.&#8221; My critics will need much bigger hammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though only a few Red Plan supporters showed up at Tuesday&#8217;s school board meeting they had a field day roasting me on the&#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\/1999"}],"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=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}