{"id":5138,"date":"2012-01-05T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T17:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2012-01-05T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T17:10:38","slug":"im-not-always-a-smart-aleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5138","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not always a smart aleck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5132\">post<\/a> leaves new readers thinking that I&#8217;m an unserious man I&#8217;ve uploaded a ten minute speech I gave extemporaneously (without notes) ten years ago when I wanted the Duluth School Board, upon which I served, to offer voters a chance to vote for new money for our classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Viewer beware. At the end of the video I say, &#8220;God Dammit.&#8221; This elicited one angry letter-to-the-editor a week or so later from a friend of one of my school board foes. Eight years later when I decided to run for the School Board again a local columnist wrote a scathing column telling his readers that I had let loose a string of expletives when giving this speech. That column probably <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4180\">cost me the election<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Judge for yourself whether the criticism seems valid. Video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F5ON7tk126A&#038;feature=youtu.be\">here<\/a>. Critical column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/RedChronicles\/DirtyDoty.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case the previous post leaves new readers thinking that I&#8217;m an unserious man I&#8217;ve uploaded a ten minute speech I gave extemporaneously (without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138"}],"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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}