{"id":9408,"date":"2013-08-29T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T03:10:44","slug":"saturday-look-for-me-at-the-gay-pride-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9408","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, look for me at the Gay Pride celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big meet and greeter and I dislike schmoozing but I&#8217;ve been invited to simply stroll along and say hello, sans literature. I can do that. I&#8217;ve got a long history of cordiality towards the gay community. The Log Cabin Republicans endorsed me for the state legislature twelve years ago when I was only brave enough to support civil unions. That was the same year a young gay DFLer infiltrated my campaign and discovered, I presume, that I wasn&#8217;t such a bad fellow. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7672\">Last Fal<\/a>l I hand painted a lawnsign to adorn my lawn. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8190\/8079977030_cdd1b8aa48_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Duluth Schools is so short handed right now that it will be hard pressed to deal with bullying which is a nasty fact of life gay kids know all too well. Its one more reason my determination to get our student-teacher ratios back down to Earth ought to win me a lot of non-traditional support. <\/p>\n<p>If it threatens to rain look for me under an umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big meet and greeter and I dislike schmoozing but I&#8217;ve been invited to simply stroll along and say hello, sans literature&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,17,35,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408"}],"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=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9413,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}