{"id":3200,"date":"2010-08-05T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2010-08-05T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:55:01","slug":"mutual-admiration-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"Mutual Admiration Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I haven&#8217;t mentioned the movie that charmed me when I was a kid called Best of enemies (I think) with David Niven playing a British officer on the North African Front in WWII I should use it as a reference here. In the movie Niven&#8217;s Brits take turn capturing and being captured by an agreeable Italian Army as the war waxes and wanes. <\/p>\n<p>Since I ran against Mike Jaros for the first time 36 years ago we&#8217;ve had the same sort of bemused and cordial rivalry. When at the beginning of the 2000&#8217;s his district was reapportioned to within twenty feet of my house I teased him that if it had just gone a little further I&#8217;d have run against him again.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the Red Plan fight as he took the lead to change the law to give us a right to vote I told him I&#8217;d never run against him again.<\/p>\n<p>When I was looking over the Hillsider yesterday morning at Perkins I reviewed my hastily written reply to the paper explaining why I should be elected. I burst out laughing at the last line I&#8217;d forgotten I&#8217;d written at its conclusion, &#8220;God Bless Mike Jaros.&#8221; That was a rather effusive thing to have written.<\/p>\n<p>So today Mike upped the ante on his old adversary by sending in yet one more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/175478\/group\/Opinion\/\">letter to the editor<\/a> to the Trib endorsing me over Roger Reinert. If I win the election Mike will deserve somewhere between 40% and 80% of the credit for my victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I haven&#8217;t mentioned the movie that charmed me when I was a kid called Best of enemies (I think) with David Niven playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-senate-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}