{"id":10003,"date":"2013-10-08T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:05:28","slug":"new-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10003","title":{"rendered":"New Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably typed 5,000 to 10,000 words up yesterday not all for the blog. As I told a coorespondent I have a small but avid readership a campaign that has only five weeks left to get elected to an office I was rebuffed for six years ago before all hell broke out. I must feed them&#8230;&#8230;.you!  For several hundred of you there may not be any TMI (too much information) that I can deliver. Its my opinion. I&#8217;m like one of the blind men trying to figure out what the elephant in front of me is based on whatever it is I happen to be touching. Is it a snake? Is it a tree trunk?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try not to let what I write get too sloppy although at the pace I&#8217;m cranking out posts that will be difficult. Editing can be two thirds of a good post and that time is a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;ve got two threads running and I&#8217;m about to add a new one. &#8220;What would you do&#8230;.if you were me&#8221; is one I began a few days ago to talk about the various candidates running for the Board. Its got a couple posts in process. It was eclipsed by &#8220;Sell Central Now.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be starting a new one soon &#8220;The teacher&#8217;s contract.&#8221; I expect that there could be even more before the election finally relieves me of my frantic musings.<\/p>\n<p>The longish &#8220;Heisenberg Principle&#8221; post from a couple days ago was meant to suggest that what I write should very well affect my work should I get elected. I don&#8217;t plan to stop spilling beans if I&#8217;m elected. Most people don&#8217;t like to have people talk behind their backs. They may resent it even more when someone like me talks to their face. That&#8217;s what this blog is. Its very in-your-face. Its me talking. I haven&#8217;t found minions to do the dirty work and I don&#8217;t intend to recruit any. I could be the most unpopular person on the next school board if I&#8217;m clumsy, spiteful or too egotistical. That would limit my effectiveness severly.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat. I have yet to meet a school board candidate who did not have the best interests of children in their heart. That goes for even those this blog most savagely assails. I expect to be elected to the next school board and I believe that whatever our differences I will be able to get along with all my fellow Board members. That might cramp my in-your-face style once I&#8217;m elected but only partly. I&#8217;ve been doing this since 1999. I&#8217;ve just gotten better at it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably typed 5,000 to 10,000 words up yesterday not all for the blog. As I told a coorespondent I have a small but&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003"}],"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=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10004,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}