{"id":8407,"date":"2013-01-23T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2013-01-23T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:04:24","slug":"a-second-helping-of-a-friends-and-my-email-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8407","title":{"rendered":"A second helping of a friend&#8217;s and my email exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8385\">previous email exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:13 AM, (a friend) wrote: <\/p>\n<p>And that is what they are counting on. They probably took that bet from the beginning. Just like Ford weighed the profits\/liabilities of the Pinto yet went forward. <\/p>\n<p>I have heard many people say they will never give them another dime. RP + 12% levy increase is just too much for people to stomach.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They lost that gamble, (Friend). And they are still losing it. <\/p>\n<p>The South is still fighting the Civil  War. Somebody ought to beat the damn sword into a ploughshare. <\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This does not in any way mean that I intend to stop taking an unflinching look at what is happening in our Post Red Plan Schools or making honest (and sometimes caustic) evaluations of what I&#8217;m seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the previous email exchange: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:13 AM, (a friend) wrote: And that is what they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,102,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-education","category-jci","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8409,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}