{"id":21614,"date":"2017-04-21T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21614"},"modified":"2017-04-21T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:09:00","slug":"inadvertant-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21614","title":{"rendered":"The ISD 709 demographics meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to the meeting yesterday about Demographics. I have some catching up to do because I missed the first half hour. These are dry meetings but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Z5V_2wSdNY\">already on youtube<\/a> there have been 45 viewings. Praise be to Art Johnston for pushing the school board to video these meetings to make them available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Rob S. Schwarz, AICP, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsp-associates.com\/site\/\">RSP<\/a> is quizzed about the plans he might help Duluth&#8217;s schools design after their demographic study. Mr. Schwarz begins by talking about the Cedar Rapids, IA, experience and urges us to google RSP&#8217;s work there while warning us about &#8220;fake news.&#8221; He proceeds to say that RSP would never encourage a city to do anything as preposterous as build 13 new schools in a five year time period. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ISD 709 Committee of the Whole Meeting April 20, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Z5V_2wSdNY?start=4647&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was among those who let loose an involuntary chuckle because that&#8217;s just what Duluth did with the Red Plan. Too bad we didn&#8217;t have RSP advising us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to the meeting yesterday about Demographics. I have some catching up to do because I missed the first half hour. These&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614"}],"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=21614"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21627,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}