{"id":2876,"date":"2010-03-19T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:41:22","slug":"driven-to-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Driven to suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I count Eric Ringsred as a friend. We haven&#8217;t talked since about two years ago when he called me out of the blue and asked me, since I like to sing, if I&#8217;d be interested in getting a bunch of kids from church together to go Christmas caroling. Eric wears his heart on his sleeve. He also puzzles and confounds conformists. Letting a strip club into his Norshore theater is just one example of this.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday his tennant Jim Gradisher committed suicide. Eric, who feels a little responsible for his friend&#8217;s death has lashed out at others he feels are responsible. He called Brandon Stahl, a DNT reporter I rather favor, and blasted him then sent an accusatory letter to many City leaders which Stahl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavoices.com\/buzz\/?blog=73968\">includes in full<\/a> on his blog. Thankfully Stahl does not take issue with Eric. He simply lets Ringsred&#8217;s letter speak for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Its not popular sticking up for folks in the skin trade. Another of my political acquaintances, Jerry Arnold trained the Federal Government on Duluth&#8217;s previous absentee porn lord Ferris Alexander.  I&#8217;ve got my own complicated thoughts about the skin trade especially now that so many people are offering theirs up for free on youtube videos. <\/p>\n<p>Last year<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2557\"> I was embarrassed<\/a> to jump to a very wrong conclusion about Mr. Gradisher when the Trib reported a dead body had been found at his home. At the time he was in the news every other day and I was sure he had committed suicide and uploaded a post suggesting that the Trib&#8217;s stories had driven him to it. I was wrong. I was premature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I count Eric Ringsred as a friend. We haven&#8217;t talked since about two years ago when he called me out of the blue and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}