{"id":3484,"date":"2011-01-25T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2011-01-25T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:36:20","slug":"lest-i-be-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Lest I be misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over the last post and there is one insinuation that was unfair. I hinted that an employee of the District would fiddle with enrollment figures to make her boss&#8217;s life easier. I doubt, in this case, that that is true. I just thought of an explanation for our Census figures.<\/p>\n<p>There is one age cohort that has grown substantially in Duluth over the past decade &#8211; college students. The growth is probably enough to make up for a lot of obituaries and departures of K-12 children, perhaps even 3,000 K-Twelvers. Its why there has been such a furor over parking in front yards. We are overrun with 18-23 year olds.<\/p>\n<p>There is another thing from the last post which should be made clear. No one has ever claimed that my acquaintance&#8217;s successor was incapable of doing the job. If Dr. Dixon did, as I suggest, make life miserable for the previous employee because he favored a younger and more attractive job candidate that was not the candidate&#8217;s fault. This would only reflect on Dr. Dixon&#8217;s ethics and lack of fair play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over the last post and there is one insinuation that was unfair. I hinted that an employee of the District would&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"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=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}