{"id":997,"date":"2007-07-23T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2007-07-23T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T13:59:21","slug":"bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Bad Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to call Tim Grover last Tuesday to find out when the School Board met. Eight years on the Board and I had completely forgotten the meeting time. That&#8217;s how much distance I had put between myself and the Board in the last four years. I must admit that I&#8217;m very surprised how much I&#8217;m enjoying the politics again. (Remember &#8211; &#8220;politics&#8221; is rooted in the Greek languange and according to Wikipedia Aristotle himself said: &#8220;that man is, by nature, a political animal. He argued that ethics and politics are closely linked, and that a truly ethical life can only be lived by someone who participates in politics.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, after watching the now 12-man Mayor&#8217;s race developing its hard to think of local politics as a particularly high-minded endeavor. After my solo at church (I told our choir director that everybody ought to sing a solo by the time they were 56) I saw a couple politicos at Sara&#8217;s Table. They commented that they had seen I was in the race but one of them, Will Munger Jr., pointed out that if I&#8217;d filed for Mayor there would have been 13 candidates. I told them that there was already enough bad luck to go around without my running for Mayor. Besides, if I&#8217;m counting right, this is already my 13th run at public office. Thirteen doubled would have been more bad luck than I could stand.<\/p>\n<p>We got a much needed rainy day Sunday which soaked into the bare wood I&#8217;d exposed on my windows after sanding them in preparation for a new coat of paint. I let Claudia and her Father watch all our newly installed cable channels while I made some phone calls to Faribault to get a sense of our Superintendent&#8217;s past there. Keith Dixon pulled off a big bond referendum while there but it seems to have had unfortunate repercussions for the District. It could be a harbinger of Duluth&#8217;s future (should we have to pay for the Red Plan) and bears more research and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll have some interesting stories to report as the research continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to call Tim Grover last Tuesday to find out when the School Board met. Eight years on the Board and I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}