{"id":2359,"date":"2009-07-09T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T02:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2009-07-09T21:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T02:49:21","slug":"the-race-between-the-class-of-54-and-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"The race between the class of 54 and 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At seven this evening as I was attending to critical family business I&#8217;d postponed all day I got a call asking me if I&#8217;d contacted all the parties to our suit to line them up for their signatures. I had to confess I hadn&#8217;t having only gotten the one from the fellow whose name was misspelled. I endured a mild scolding about how this was our top priority and that I shouldn&#8217;t fall down on the job with so few days to get the surety bond.  I feebly said that I certainly understood but that it was one of eight critical priorities I had to attend to today (some of which I daren&#8217;t blog about lest the District&#8217;s lawyers jump all over me). That defense didn&#8217;t buy me much sympathy over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>As I headed out to drive to a UPS store to send a fax yet again to a bank that had gotten the same information already seven or ten times over the past month my wife asked me rather smartly if I was the only person in Let Duluth Vote who could do anything. No, I assured her, there are a couple other folks in the group whose spouses ask them the same question.<\/p>\n<p>So, here it is 9:30 and I haven&#8217;t picked up my marker to do some serious redacting. But I promised to put the info about the stiff competition between the Central Classes of 1954 and 1958 on one of our websites. Is not all that surprising considering I never put the last thermometer on the website showing that we&#8217;d raised our full $100,000. (Actually more like $106,000.<\/p>\n<p>So, about the big competition. Central&#8217;s classes of 54 and 58 were tied at $925 until yesterday when someone from the class of 54 chipped in $100 to <strong>Let Duluth Vote <\/strong>to take the lead from those young whippersnappers of 1958 at $1,025. <\/p>\n<p>This is where I&#8217;m supposed to be posting the results as they come in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveduluthcentral.com\/\">www.saveduluthcentral.com.<\/a> I might be a bit more diligent about it if a few more classes from Central wanted to pitch in to make sure Duluth&#8217;s oldest high school lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At seven this evening as I was attending to critical family business I&#8217;d postponed all day I got a call asking me if I&#8217;d&#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\/2359"}],"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=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}