{"id":23962,"date":"2017-12-13T06:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23962"},"modified":"2017-12-13T06:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:45:39","slug":"doomsayer-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23962","title":{"rendered":"Doomsayer ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a month to recover from my most recent election defeat. I was quick to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23807\">cast a gimlet eye<\/a> on the satisfied reaction of the News Trib&#8217;s editors who viewed my warnings as over the top doomsday talk rather than as a necessary warning. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I can be an <em>I-told-you-so <\/em>as well as a prophet so I&#8217;ll belatedly link to yesterday&#8217;s banner headline in the Trib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4372598-unexpected-duluth-school-cuts-loom\">&#8220;Duluth school cuts loom.&#8221;<\/a> We have lost a three million dollar reserve which we painfully cobbled together in my four years on the School Board. We have a couple day&#8217;s reserve of one tenth of a million dollars. Statutory Operating Debt (SOD) and State intervention is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>As for the three fresh new faces who are going to cure our ills with positivity&#8230;&#8230;.only one of them, Josh Gorham, has made a habit of attending school board meetings both before and since his election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a month to recover from my most recent election defeat. I was quick to cast a gimlet eye on the satisfied reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962"}],"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=23962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23967,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions\/23967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}