{"id":27551,"date":"2019-06-11T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27551"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:31:37","slug":"27551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27551","title":{"rendered":"On my mark, Get set&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a week to organize myself for my school board campaign. I&#8217;ll have two shots at a Reader column before its publisher cuts me off as a candidate. I sent one in today. It contains a cartoon I drew borrowing heavily from a children&#8217;s illustration. I figure that I&#8217;ve had a year to undo the damage Donald Trump inflicted on my school board campaign in 2017 by leaving Duluth&#8217;s outraged voters under the mistaken impression that by voting against me they were voting against Trump. Actually, I have enjoyed my vacation from the School Board and the Superintendent. Thank you Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cartoon. You will have to wait until the Reader comes out to see how its used.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48044254678_e993a6a934_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the blog will be my daily contact with voters I&#8217;ve gotten interested in seeing how much attention it attracts by analyzing this year&#8217;s blog stats. Although less than half complete June is by far the most visited month for a long time, maybe ever. I&#8217;ve averaged 4,674 page views a day. And each &#8220;pageview&#8221; includes twenty posts. <\/p>\n<p>In looking at my blog I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3\">the very first post<\/a> from March of 2006 where I declared my separation from the Republican Party. I also just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=40\"> a post<\/a> meant to be a quick reference to finding stuff on my first website: www.snowbizz.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a week to organize myself for my school board campaign. I&#8217;ll have two shots at a Reader column before its publisher cuts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,17,35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-housekeeping","category-duluth-schools","category-education","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551","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=27551"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27560,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551\/revisions\/27560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}