{"id":3173,"date":"2010-07-29T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:50:12","slug":"facebook-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck (the Trib&#8217;s editor) pointed out that the letter-to-the-editor I sent him had a factual error that I will be changing tonight. He made a couple of good suggestions but I&#8217;ll wait till tonight to think about them. <\/p>\n<p>The editorial endorsing Roger was extremely long almost as though its length would cover up its lack of substance. Driving back to Duluth this afternoon I could think of nothing of consequence that the Trib claimed Roger had accomplished. Oh, he set up Facebook. If that&#8217;s the criteria he&#8217;s your man.<\/p>\n<p>I hate Facebook as a political tool. I have a Face bookpage I set up years ago that I rarely visit despite getting lots of friend requests. They come from both family friends and political junkies. That&#8217;s oil and vinegar. I much prefer my blog to communicate to the world (or one of my websites) and I much prefer email for collecting feedback and data. <\/p>\n<p>If Facebook is the criteria for election to the State Senate Duluth has thousands of adolescents with bright political futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck (the Trib&#8217;s editor) pointed out that the letter-to-the-editor I sent him had a factual error that I will be changing tonight. He made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,62,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-diary","category-media","category-mn-senate-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}