{"id":2461,"date":"2009-07-31T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2009-07-31T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:41:17","slug":"shame-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"Shame on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was calling one of Tim Grover&#8217;s constituents the other day who commented that he had written Tim off after voting for him in the early 1990&#8217;s because he ran for the School Board to save Central High. A few months after his election Tim voted to close it.<\/p>\n<p>The constituent told me that he&#8217;d forgiven Tim so that when Tim campaigned for reelection in 2007 to keep Central open he cast a second vote for Tim. When Tim, who explains that he was simply being pragmatic because he couldn&#8217;t change the majority, voted to close Central again the constituent has found himself muttering to himself: &#8220;Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was calling one of Tim Grover&#8217;s constituents the other day who commented that he had written Tim off after voting for him in&#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\/2461"}],"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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}