{"id":23355,"date":"2017-10-12T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T01:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T01:10:02","slug":"dfl-family-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23355","title":{"rendered":"DFL Family Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve earlier conceded that I sought my first DFL endorsement this year. But I first attended a DFL precinct caucus in 2006 or 07 after years of trying not to tie myself into a pretzel meeting the Gollum-like policy expectations of the Republican Party &#8211; taxes on the poor, free licence for the rich.<\/p>\n<p>Loren Martell has <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/11\/11309_family_feud\">a particularly strong start<\/a> in his description of what it takes (took) to win the DFL endorsement for the non-partisan office of the Duluth School Board. I was a little surprised to see our Board Chair, David Kirby, in the screening committee weighing me as a candidate. <\/p>\n<p>Our connection did me little good. I would have sold Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve earlier conceded that I sought my first DFL endorsement this year. But I first attended a DFL precinct caucus in 2006 or 07&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-sch-b-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23360,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions\/23360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}