{"id":28698,"date":"2019-09-24T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28698"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:35:34","slug":"there-are-21-applicants-for-my-old-school-board-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28698","title":{"rendered":"There are 21 applicants for my old school board seat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;one of the two at large seats won by Josh Gorham. I owe Josh two big thank yous. First, he gave me a wonderful two-year vacation from the School Board. Second, his departure demonstrated that the Board&#8217;s dysfunction might not have all that much to do with my being on the School Board.<\/p>\n<p>I know a few of the candidates. The brief bios in the DNT suggest a good crop of potential board members. There are a heckuva lot more people willing to serve than their were willing to run for an at-large office.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4675050-Twenty-one-people-filed-for-the-vacant-At-Large-seat-on-the-Duluth-School-Board.-See-their-applications-here.\"> 21 of them.<\/a> Only two candidates filed to run at-large this year and we didn&#8217;t even have enough candidates to have a primary for any of the three seats being filled on November 5th. That&#8217;s a sad commentary on the nastiness that surrounds even local elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;one of the two at large seats won by Josh Gorham. I owe Josh two big thank yous. First, he gave me a wonderful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-school-board-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28698","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=28698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28699,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28698\/revisions\/28699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}