{"id":2024,"date":"2009-04-26T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2009-04-26T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:42:34","slug":"ironies-abound-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"Ironies abound #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Doty and I have a long simmering feud going on. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has followed Lincoln Democrat long enough certainly understands that I don&#8217;t have much use for the tactics of the powerful School District or its ally the colossal Johnson Controls. Under pressure with time growing short I&#8217;ve resorted to tactics that I would normally shun. My Momma always told me &#8220;You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.&#8221; Sorry Mom, but a year&#8217;s worth of honey did me little good.<\/p>\n<p>The District is trying to change the direction of the debate from the value of the Red Plan to the menace of its opponents. Quoting me quoting someone else&#8217;s violent sounding comments helps them make the case. Ralph&#8217;s column didn&#8217;t help them make that case.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because Ralph doesn&#8217;t think my words were any more serious a threat to the School Board member than I did. As the Assistant Editor of the Budgeteer he&#8217;s paid to give such things due consideration. If Mr. Doty had thought my second hand quote would imperil the Board member he had a duty to spare that official from further unwanted attention. But Ralph not only published the Board member&#8217;s name but but quoted the actions which drew the ire of the person I quoted. <\/p>\n<p>My blog is read by about 1000 different people each month. Each issue of Ralph&#8217;s column in the Budgeteer goes out to something like 40,000 readers. Ralph Doty was more interested in making me look bad than he was the safety of the Board member I criticized. I presume that Mr. Doty saw no more threat in my words than I did when I posted them.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong. See the next couple posts for a further explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Doty and I have a long simmering feud going on. Anyone who has followed Lincoln Democrat long enough certainly understands that I don&#8217;t&#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\/2024"}],"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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}