{"id":3968,"date":"2011-09-03T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T18:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T18:33:05","slug":"virgils-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3968","title":{"rendered":"Virgil&#8217;s swing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is not a miss. Only his Budgeteer column is missing from the DNT&#8217;s online site. That&#8217;s too bad. <\/p>\n<p>He points out that the public employee union is pushing hard for City Council candidates. Once seated the councilors will determine how much union members are paid. At a time of diminishing Government services this is troubling.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally I got a call a week ago from a surveyer not identifying himself asking me if I had decided upon any city council candidates. When I identified the one I Considering the source the suggestion might have cost both candidates votes from our household. <\/p>\n<p>Like Mr. Swing I have no use for Wisconsin Governor Walker&#8217;s heavy handedness. That doesn&#8217;t mean that public employee&#8217;s political power is not excessive. It is, and it will probably continue to cripple Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Labor Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is not a miss. Only his Budgeteer column is missing from the DNT&#8217;s online site. That&#8217;s too bad. He points out that the public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,82,81,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968"}],"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=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}