{"id":579,"date":"2006-08-18T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2006-08-18T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:10:10","slug":"he-knows-whereof-he-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"He knows whereof he speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/news\/15303389.htm\">a fascinating little story<\/a> in the Trib today. It seems that some of our Representatives are busy re-editing the unflattering things written about them on Wikipedia. The people who run &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest&#8221; online reference source even put a two-week hold on edit changes emanating from Capitol Hill&#8217;s server.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Representative Gil Gutknecht who is in a tough race with an Iraq war veteran kept trying to erase the entry under his name that pointed out that twelve years ago he promised to term-limit himself and retire from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Caught by a 15-year-old in trying to hide this embarassing little detail Guthnect&#8217;s spokesman bad-mouthed Wikipedia saying that its authors were untrustworthy. Since Gutknecht is one of Wikipedia&#8217;s authors he knows what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a fascinating little story in the Trib today. It seems that some of our Representatives are busy re-editing the unflattering things written&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,36,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}