{"id":23591,"date":"2017-10-26T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:11:33","slug":"irony-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23591","title":{"rendered":"Irony watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a connoisseur of all things ironic and recent stories, that have been a surprise to me and everyone I know, may have an incredibly ironic connection.  <\/p>\n<p>I blame one administration suck up for bringing down a ton of bricks on my colleague Art Johnston three years ago. Long time readers may know to whom I&#8217;m referring although I&#8217;ve never quite been enough of a &#8220;provocateur&#8221; to use such incendiary language before to describe her. I can&#8217;t help but wonder if the recent news about Art&#8217;s challenger wasn&#8217;t brought about by the very same person, thirteen unlucky years ago, sowing time bombs and mayhem wherever she went.<\/p>\n<p>I highlighted the word <em>provocateur<\/em> because I described myself as such to Jana Hollingsworth for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4349379-school-board-large-race-offers-wide-range-candidates\">today&#8217;s story <\/a>about the At-large school board candidates.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking historically. More examples of <em>my kind<\/em> of provocateur: Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, Martin Luther, Frederick Douglas, Jesus of Nazareth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a connoisseur of all things ironic and recent stories, that have been a surprise to me and everyone I know, may have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,17,35,90,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591"}],"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=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23594,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions\/23594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}