{"id":13396,"date":"2015-05-05T08:33:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2017-02-24T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:02:33","slug":"the-gadflys-gadfly-bites-my-haunches-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13396","title":{"rendered":"The gadfly&#8217;s gadfly bites my haunches again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: [Harry&#8217;s Buddy]<br \/>\nDate: 05\/04\/2015  7:01 PM  (GMT-06:00)<br \/>\nTo: Harry Welty <harrywelty@charter.net><br \/>\nSubject: A letter on my making an ass of myself at lincolndemocrat.com <\/p>\n<p>Harry: <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13375#more-13375\">http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13375#more-13375<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve never    had much truck for those would subvert our election processes through    misinformation, vote rigging or vote buying on the scale of the Koch Brothers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Koch Brothers buy votes?  Pray tell how that  happens; and if it does, whether and how such behavior is peculiar to the Koch  Brothers.  And you complain that Art Johnston&#8217;s character is being  assassinated?<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that you damage your credibility when you  resort to bullshit.  <\/p>\n<p>[Your Buddy] <\/p>\n<p>My Reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Buddy, <\/p>\n<p>That was an ill considered phrase. &#8220;Advertisement buying&#8221; would have been more accurate than vote buying. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote this letter month&#8217;s ago to have an arch liberal critic of mine back off her attack on me.  Altering my text after the fact would have been dishonest. I was pretty sure that she would have regarded the Koch boys much like I do &#8211; as multi billionaires with too much financial leverage in the ideological arena for the Nation&#8217;s well being. I should have said that but didn&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n<p>That, however, wasn&#8217;t the chief point of my letter. It was human frailty and foibles. I guess you could say my overstatement where the Koch&#8217;s are concerned is but another example of that.  <\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: [Harry&#8217;s Buddy] Date: 05\/04\/2015 7:01 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Harry Welty Subject: A letter on my making an ass of myself at lincolndemocrat.com Harry:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,31,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-school-board","category-gods-own-party","category-good-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19743,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/19743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}