{"id":9666,"date":"2013-09-18T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2013-09-18T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:58:18","slug":"after-the-civil-war-3-my-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"After the Civil War 3 &#8211; My mistake\/s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I&#8217;ve said and written that I now know are wrong after meeting with the Superintendent. <\/p>\n<p>In my current flyer I wrote that the referendum will cost most of us a couple hundred dollars. That suggested an annual cost. It was way too high.<br \/>\nA quarter million dollar house, in my home&#8217;s assessment range, would see an increase of about $60. <\/p>\n<p>When I pointed out the increases in the cost of the Red Plan from its initial reported estimate of $257 million I pointed out the two new eight lane pools. Gronseth furrowed his eyebrows at this and pointed out that our district has always had swimming as part of our middle\/Junior high school curriculum. He said, and I suspect he&#8217;s right. that two new six lane pools were always part of the red Plan. What changed was the decision to make them 8 lane pools suitable for competitions. That would mean they weren&#8217;t suddenly added when Judy Seliga-Punyko defeated me six years for the school board. Made bigger yes. I can&#8217;t pin the entire cost to Dixon&#8217;s giving Judy a prize for defeating me. <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t change the fact that the plan kept getting bigger on Dixon&#8217;s steroids but fair is fair. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that if and when I get on the inside again I&#8217;ll discover other similar mistakes and feel obligated to own up to them. My embarrassments will  be a small price to pay to set our public schools on a course to discover new worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I&#8217;ve said and written that I now know are wrong after meeting with the Superintendent. In my current flyer I&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666"}],"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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9668,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}