{"id":4182,"date":"2011-10-28T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:11:42","slug":"uncivil-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"Uncivil civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"Reader's view: Seliga-Punyko will support children and civility\">letter-to-the-editor<\/a> alleging that Loren Martell has been incivil has made the Trib. It is the third of a series from women who all have been League of Women Voters types who have been friends and allies for twenty years. <\/p>\n<p>All these women claim to have sat through school board sessions in which Loren was hostile toward the School Board. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever seen Loren raise his voice but I&#8217;ve only watched him a couple times. I suspect these writers are all confused about what incivility involves. Criticism is not uncivil. Perseverance is not uncivil. Loren is both<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion hiding public data is uncivil as are shutting off public discussions and spreading lies. So is character assassination. I think all these critics of Loren Martell are treading heavily on the latter offense.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that incuriosity is uncivil but I don&#8217;t think its virtuous either. After all, we&#8217;re talking about school board members who are presumed to be concerned about education and enlightenment. I&#8217;d have to say that on this score Loren Martell ranks far above the incumbent he is challenging and the best evidence of this is <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4168\">the column<\/a> he wrote for the Trib yesterday. I suspect (although it may be uncivil of me to offer this speculation) that the District&#8217;s PR person has written most of the stuff that current school board members submit to the Trib to justify their continuing support of the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to take credit for some of Loren&#8217;s perspicacity but he never reads my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest letter-to-the-editor alleging that Loren Martell has been incivil has made the Trib. It is the third of a series from women who&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182"}],"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=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}