{"id":11123,"date":"2014-06-24T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2014-06-24T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:44:31","slug":"an-old-friends-daughter-does-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11123","title":{"rendered":"An old friend&#8217;s daughter does good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old high school buddy, who I haven&#8217;t seen since he got married thirty years ago, and I found each other on the Internet and began emailing each other in recent years. We keep talking about getting together again. He&#8217;s the fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10514\">I reminisced<\/a> about last January who sent me an <a href=\"http:\/\/pksoi.army.mil\/PKM\/publications\/relatedpubs\/documents\/Opium_Spangler_web.pdf\">erudite article<\/a> on opium cultivation in Afghanistan. He&#8217;s retired to the D.C. area and I told him a month ago that Claudia and I were thinking of passing through this summer. I&#8217;m not so sure now. The damned School District has gone wacko and I don&#8217;t know if I dare leave Duluth this summer or fail to attend any School Board meetings. I may have to stay Duluth bound.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway my buddy sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/health\/100000002951693\/good-night-margaret.html?playlistId=1194811622182\">this video<\/a> and told me his daughter helped produce it for the New York Times. Its only eleven minutes long but it dampened my eyes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old high school buddy, who I haven&#8217;t seen since he got married thirty years ago, and I found each other on the Internet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123"}],"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=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}