{"id":421,"date":"2006-07-04T09:35:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2006-07-19T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T22:48:10","slug":"gerald-heaney-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Heaney Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Heaney was <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2006\/07\/03\/midday2\/\">interviewed by MPR&#8217;s Stephanie Hemphill<\/a> for Voices of Minnesota. Heaney has an\u00c2\u00a0laudatory past\u00c2\u00a0but he&#8217;s also a key figure in the story I&#8217;m writing about the destruction of Don Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>When I first moved to Duluth 33 years ago Republicans in particulary spoke of him in hushed tones. He was their nemesis and they regarded him\u00c2\u00a0as the power behind the area&#8217;s political scene. Its not surprising that he figures into the Boyd scandal when his old friend Senator Hubert Humphrey was in a position to be badly embarrassed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Heaney was interviewed by MPR&#8217;s Stephanie Hemphill for Voices of Minnesota. Heaney has an\u00c2\u00a0laudatory past\u00c2\u00a0but he&#8217;s also a key figure in the story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,25,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}