{"id":13978,"date":"2015-07-09T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2015-07-09T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:29:57","slug":"wild-swans-and-mao-and-awwwwwww-my-old-website-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13978","title":{"rendered":"Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, <strong>Wild Swans<\/strong>. We <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=688\">apparently acquired it <\/a>in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today&#8217;s July 9th so we managed to get it done in six weeks. I&#8217;ve just attempted to add the book to my lifetime reading list on my old blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\">snowbizz.com<\/a>. It appears that the blog is no longer working. This page and the snow sculpting page are about the only parts of the once vast site that I kept updating. For ten years the website was my life although it was eventually eclipsed by Lincolndemocrat. I suppose I can go back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/www.snowbizz.com\">wayback machine<\/a> if I really want to review it. Maybe it can be fixed but I&#8217;ve let dozens up software upgrades go by without keeping the old site up to date. I&#8217;d hoped to have it survive me but I don&#8217;t think I have it in me to rebuild it. At the moment the homepage is still up but I haven&#8217;t found any internal links that work. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that deflates me and my will to say something about the wonderful book that Wild Swans is. It had twelve million copies sold by 2003 so I&#8217;m a late reader. It was finished in the early 1990&#8217;s. It can only be read in China underground or that was the case as of 2003 when its author penned its brief afterward. <\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful character study and, although our situation in Duluth doesn&#8217;t come close to the extreme, of Maoist China, I kept running into a lot of parallels with our little ongoing sagas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,95,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978"}],"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=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13996,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}