{"id":16378,"date":"2016-04-23T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16378"},"modified":"2016-04-23T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:42:24","slug":"16378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16378","title":{"rendered":"Taking a pin to my pompous balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this email reaction to my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16366\">white lie post<\/a> from a sympathizer just about sums it up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Harry, except for talking too much, you are a real asset to our community.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Buddy was a little less charitable offering me an alternative adage: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bullshit might make the grass grow green, but . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He refrains from completing his proffered quote but I imagine that it would conclude something like this: &#8230; too much will kill the grass.<\/p>\n<p>My Buddy gets great satisfaction from his disgust of bullshit. I rather admire him for that.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile yet another ally heading off to the DFL convention today to choose between Sharla Gardner and Rep. Simonson for the State Senate endorsement sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/story\/author-thomas-frank-talks-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-and-his-new-book-listen-liberal\/#.VxkvSZtFvno.facebook\">very interesting Q &#038; A<\/a>. It was with the Author of the book <strong>What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas<\/strong> which skewered Republicans. He&#8217;s got a new book out now skewering Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my real quarrel is with all the college-educated folks who insisted that spending half a billion bucks on new schools would lead to nirvana. Of course, at the time, all I could think of was the children&#8217;s fable about the Emperor&#8217;s new clothes. I&#8217;m sure the King&#8217;s courtiers and counselors all went to Ivy League schools and were pained to hear that only dolts could not see the King&#8217;s regal new attire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chaosisbliss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Lorax.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BTW. I had great fun yesterday reading Dr. Seuss&#8217;s <strong>The Lorax<\/strong> to kindergartners through 2nd graders at Lakewood Elementary for Earth Day. It taught me that there are some things we really don&#8217;t thneed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this email reaction to my white lie post from a sympathizer just about sums it up: &#8220;Harry, except for talking too much, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378"}],"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=16378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16388,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions\/16388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}