{"id":3219,"date":"2010-08-10T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2010-08-10T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T12:33:55","slug":"this-grand-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This grand experiment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every sensational headline about the Red Plan is like free advertising for my Senate Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/175919\/\">unexpected story<\/a> about the proposed hiring of former Duluth police chief Gary Waller is a special bonus because today a few thousand voters will read it before going to the polls to vote for their new state senator. As I am associated with Red Plan critics this is likely to help me more than Roger a Red Plan friendly pol.<\/p>\n<p>Jana Hollilngsworth, the Trib&#8217;s education reporter, did Gary Glass no favors by quoting him at the conclusion of her story on the potential hiring. Gary, who favors the hire, was being obviously sarcastic about &#8220;the grand experiment&#8221; as he has fought the Red Plan from the outset. Readers who are often too literal may not appreciate Gary&#8217;s irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every sensational headline about the Red Plan is like free advertising for my Senate Campaign. Today&#8217;s unexpected story about the proposed hiring of former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219"}],"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=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}