{"id":4019,"date":"2011-09-14T20:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:52:17","slug":"from-the-zenith-about-our-nadir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"From the Zenith about our Nadir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read it yet although its author called me about a couple of my recent posts. I was sent this excerpt from the latest Zenith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While exact numbers aren&#8217;t available yet, the District has 100 to 250 more students this year than expected, reversing decades of declining enrollment and netting an additional $600,000 from the state. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a small recovery from the net loss of 1,779 students since 2004, according to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE).&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dixon Middle School, indeed!  <\/p>\n<p>This is grim but I can only hope that some of those lost students really do represent children who are no longer in the district since my last year on the School Board. However, I suspect a lot of kids dropped out in recent years with no one to catch them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go Loren Martell!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Your name springs from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Martel\">Charles Martel<\/a> who saved Christianiaty at the border of Spain over a thousand years ago.  See what you can do for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read it yet although its author called me about a couple of my recent posts. I was sent this excerpt from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019"}],"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=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20333,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}