{"id":231,"date":"2006-05-15T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T19:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:55:02","slug":"small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Small World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Bye family. . . its such a small world. My next door neighbor in Mankato, Minnesota, Mary Lofy was a friend of Don Bye&#8217;s wife, former City Councilor, Meg Bye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I used to get a kick\u00a0 out of watching\u00a0Mary&#8217;s kids\u00a0play in their backyard down below my bedroom window. They kept a big mellow St. Bernard in their yard who lumbered around after the kids. Mary and my Mother were both partners in a small boutique shop called\u00a0Harpies Bazaar along with a dozen other women. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/MomsArtPage\/NoTalent\/12_adversiting.htm\">My Mother\u00a0did the store&#8217;s ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mary and Meg were both active DFLers, City Councilors and ex nuns. I recently heard Mary&#8217;s son Bill on NPR talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0472031198\/002-3007854-5553632?v=glance&#038;n=283155\">the book he had just authored on Paul Wellstone<\/a>. I sent Mary an email commenting on her son&#8217;s eloquence and telling her that I was going to buy the book. As for Meg, she\u00a0currently overseas the City of Duluth&#8217;s Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Bye family. . . its such a small world. My next door neighbor in Mankato, Minnesota, Mary Lofy was a friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30372,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/30372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}