{"id":1068,"date":"2007-09-22T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T03:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2007-09-22T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T04:03:13","slug":"a-beautiful-saturday-for-the-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful Saturday for the Landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up three hours after climbing into bed. It wasn&#8217;t easy getting up but I felt the urge to write a fundraising letter for Let Duluth Vote. I decided my newly submitted column for the Trib would be a good enclosure to go with it. I cranked it out and printed out return addresses for a return envelope to our treasurer. <\/p>\n<p>By the time I was done it was ten and I had to begin organizing my day. I reserved a Uhaul trailer and headed up to print out my letters and enclosures. I got to the trailer rental at 11AM and drove home and loaded up all the debris from the basement. Of course, I had to borrow my son&#8217;s car as mine was keyless. I had discovered the keys missing the previous day and had to beg a ride to the soup kitchen to help serve food. <\/p>\n<p>When I returned I kept working on the basement. I bleached the kitchen and the steps leading down to the basement. I then let them dry while I &#8211; darned &#8211; I&#8217;m so fuzzy on the early afternoon. I don&#8217;t know what I did but I worked hard at it. Oh, yeah, now I remember. I got an hour of sleep. <\/p>\n<p>When Claudia returned home at 3:00 the kitchen floor was still damp. We went out for lunch and I tried to stay awake to keep the conversation going. We sat down next to&#8230;now your not going to believe this&#8230;Bob Brooks. It was the third time in three days we&#8217;d eaten at the same restaurant he was at. Sara&#8217;s table two days ago. The Burrito Union yesterday and Sara&#8217;s again today. <\/p>\n<p>When we got back I began assembling the fundraising letters until I just couldn&#8217;t keep my eyes pealed. I napped for another hour or two and woke again and resumed the mailing. Claudia helped and I got a hundred letters sent out to past contributors of mine. I only asked for money for Let Duluth Vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up three hours after climbing into bed. It wasn&#8217;t easy getting up but I felt the urge to write a fundraising letter&#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\/1068"}],"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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}