{"id":163,"date":"2006-04-22T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-07-18T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:38:03","slug":"off-to-the-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Off to the races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m off in ten minutes to the DFL District Convention. I&#8217;ve got an early meeting of the Rules Committee to attend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=7\">Weekend Edition on NPR was<\/a> a treat. A very interesting commentary by Joe Klein on how consultants have ruined politics&#8230;Amen. He made an surprising comment about Dubya. I think I agree&#8230;.its too damn late though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And a bio of the composer of &#8220;Brother can you spare a dime&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And an interesting tidbit on the iconic 60&#8217;s lefty and victim of the HUAC, Lillian Hellman, who did her best to keep Martin Luther King and later the NAACP from being given the bequest from Dorothy Parker&#8217;s will. Today&#8217;s leftists ought to look to her example for a little taste of humility before getting too puffed up about the self righteousness about religious conservatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off in ten minutes to the DFL District Convention. I&#8217;ve got an early meeting of the Rules Committee to attend. Listening to Weekend&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}