{"id":8193,"date":"2013-01-04T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2013-01-04T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:52:52","slug":"lousy-sales-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8193","title":{"rendered":"Lousy sales pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Superintendent Gronseth<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/254662\/group\/Opinion\/\">weighed in<\/a> with what he must have thought was a good sales pitch to follow up the recently approved 12% increase in property taxes for the Duluth Schools with a successful property increase at a referendum next November. Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;d paraphrase his case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I talk to a few critics who complain that we were unwilling to make compromises in forcing the Red Plan down everyone&#8217;s throat which, for your information, have finally given us wonderful, safe schools that are saving us oodles of money. But we&#8217;re broke now so these complaints won&#8217;t help us raise more money to fix problems that in no way are related to the Red Plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Superintendent Gronsethweighed in with what he must have thought was a good sales pitch to follow up the recently approved 12% increase in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193"}],"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=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}