{"id":850,"date":"2006-10-28T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2017-03-03T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:28:48","slug":"i-approve-of-this-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"I approve of this Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Duluth Budgeteer, which non-Duluthians can&#8217;t fathom because its half advertiser, half newspaper, just published <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=19118&#038;section=Opinion\"><strong>a great editorial<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Here&#8217;s the nub:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Voters should not just vote along party lines or vote for incumbents who have been in office for years.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the incumbents on the ballot have held their positions for years \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if not decades. Maybe they&#8217;ve held on to the position because they&#8217;re doing a top-notch job.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they&#8217;ve just held that position for so long because people assume that the incumbents are the best men or women for the job.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth Budgeteer, which non-Duluthians can&#8217;t fathom because its half advertiser, half newspaper, just published a great editorial. Here&#8217;s the nub: &#8220;Voters should not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21022,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/21022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}