{"id":22607,"date":"2017-08-11T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22607"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:04:13","slug":"august-blogging-campaigning-and-family-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22607","title":{"rendered":"August blogging, campaigning, and family life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an uptick in visitors since I resumed blogging after my return from China. There will be much more to add as the school board campaign kicks into gear but as I&#8217;ve told candidates for the School Board people still have summer on their minds and tearing their attention away to what comes after Labor Day will not be easy. I have already done more early campaigning than I&#8217;ve done in years preparing campaign materials coaching other candidates etc. And my summer, or rather my family&#8217;s summer, is not yet over. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my brother-in-law showed up for a long weekend primed to take my grandsons fishing. I did manage to pick up my first 10,000 flyers yesterday but as I look at my calendar for August I&#8217;ll only have Monday to pass them out before flying to Colorado on Tuesday after the Business Committee meeting. I&#8217;m heading to a family reunion in the Rockies for a remembrance of my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=%22uncle+frank%22\">Uncle Frank<\/a> who died a few days after I left him in Denver last January. Then on Saturday or Sunday following my return I&#8217;m going to take my oldest grandson on a trip to wherever it is cloud free to watch the eclipse. We are determined to enjoy it for all of its 2 minutes and forty seconds of totality. I am very psyched for this trip with him. It was looking like I&#8217;d have to go solo as other folks in my family have important things on their calendar that will keep them in town. The Tan Man loves science and I&#8217;ve charged him to do some research before we leave.<\/p>\n<p>It will only be after our return, August 22nd or so, that I&#8217;ll be able be able to pass out the bulk of those ten thousand flyers. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to double that if my fundraising kicks in. I am almost resolved to stop spending any more of my money on this campaign. I care deeply about remaining on the School Board now that some semblance of sanity has taken hold of it but I don&#8217;t like the idea of buying the darned office.<\/p>\n<p>I think there will be a surprise coming up. The Superintendent has forecast that is going to be an ugly campaign but dogged Art Johnston has made unending inquiries and I think he has finally uncovered a fuller explanation for why Dixon&#8217;s Duluth School Board unwittingly took $11.5 million local dollars out of the classroom leaving them a shambles.<\/p>\n<p>All that is yet to come so I hope my eight loyal readers will forgive this teaser and my next break away from keeping them informed about the doings of the Duluth Schools.<\/p>\n<p>I think this campaign will finally be rational. If I&#8217;m right, it will pit the School Board&#8217;s constitutional duty to act as management against a long recent tradition of school boards ineptly trying to sweep embarassments under the rug in a lame excuse for salesmanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an uptick in visitors since I resumed blogging after my return from China. There will be much more to add as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607"}],"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=22607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22613,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}