{"id":2234,"date":"2009-06-16T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:39:40","slug":"the-other-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"The other half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/122953\/\">Trib&#8217;s editorial today <\/a>concerns a survey financed by the City about local attitudes about Duluth. I haven&#8217;t read the story. I&#8217;m not sure if it will be in the hard copy I&#8217;ll pick up at my front door in a few minutes but this paragraph was arresting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The numbers include that only 48 percent of the approximately 564 Duluthians who filled out and returned the randomly mailed survey (which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent) said Duluth&#8217;s public schools were &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good.&#8221; That&#8217;s below the national average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, if only 48% of our residents think our public schools are good or excellent 52% think they are poor, mediocre or have no opinion about them at all. I&#8217;m sure when Dr. Dixon blasts his sixty foot deep holding basin out of the rock at Ordean and chases off the eagles public attitudes will improve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2230\">Feel free to copy this to the Judge.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trib&#8217;s editorial today concerns a survey financed by the City about local attitudes about Duluth. I haven&#8217;t read the story. I&#8217;m not sure&#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\/2234"}],"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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20722,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}