{"id":2880,"date":"2010-03-20T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2010-03-20T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:12:58","slug":"i-dreamed-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"I dreamed I saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon&#8217;s right hand man Joe Hill may be leaving. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/163448\/group\/News\/\">According to the DNT<\/a> he&#8217;s one of the top choices to superintend the fastest growing School District in Minnesota, Sartell.<\/p>\n<p>I hinted when I first heard about his application that he was like a rat jumping ship. That&#8217;s not fair. Joe is an OK guy who simply is doing what his school board and his boss have directed him to do. In fact, I can&#8217;t think of any experience that would better prepare a Superintendent to lead a fast growing district. I gather that he gets along well with the principals and other administrators under him. He is certainly a personable fellow. I did chat with him briefly shortly after he was hired and even joked with him a bit by singing that great old union turned pop song Joe Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Joe&#8217;s surviving a tough job I&#8217;d offer a few changes in its lyrics:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, as live as you and me,<br \/>\nSays I to Joe your ten years dead, I never died says he,<br \/>\nI never died says he,<\/p>\n<p>JCI bosses shot you Joe they filled you up with lead,<br \/>\nTakes more than guns to kill a school says Joe and I ain&#8217;t dead<br \/>\nSays Joe and I ain&#8217;t dead.<\/p>\n<p>They made you strand and shrink your staff and big fill them out of schools,<br \/>\nPerhaps said Joe, but they&#8217;re all mute cuz teachers ain&#8217;t no fools<br \/>\nAnd furthermore says Joe to me the fact is I ain&#8217;t dead.<br \/>\nthe fact is I ain&#8217;t dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon&#8217;s right hand man Joe Hill may be leaving. According to the DNT he&#8217;s one of the top choices to superintend the fastest&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}