{"id":18533,"date":"2016-11-27T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18533"},"modified":"2016-11-27T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:36:16","slug":"eclectification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18533","title":{"rendered":"Eclectification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 3 or 4 days my early morning brain has been assaulted repeatedly with plethoras &#8211; plethoras of ideas. Sleep might have been more comforting because the thoughts all jockeyed to turn themselves into blog posts&#8230;&#8230;.I did family time instead. The grandsons stayed with us three nights in a row. No blog posts&#8230;&#8230;just a head on the verge of explosion as Thanksgiving, Christmas decorating, a jigsaw puzzle and a couple of family movie outings paraded past. <\/p>\n<p>When I first heard the word &#8220;eclectic&#8221; back in junior high I decided I was one just as I decided I was an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/autodidact\">autodidadact<\/a>&#8221; long before I learned my hero, Abraham Lincoln, was one of the best exemplars of self education. <\/p>\n<p>It being Sunday I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/program\/b-la-fleck-abigail-washburn-truth-beauty-banjo\/7705\">NPR&#8217;s On Being again<\/a> at 6AM. It was a rebroadcast with two musicians Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. I had enjoyed it the first time and near the end remembered vividly Ms. Washburn&#8217;s singing of an old Labor song <em>Come all ye coal miners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It has lyrics that ought to send a shiver through the hearts of Republican corporatists who won the votes of so many cast off union members in this election: <em>&#8220;&#8230;see what the dirty capitalist system is doing to you and me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found a youtube of the song with Washburn singing accompanied by musicians from far flung parts of the world. Its the first song you hear on this youtube snippet:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWi8f22xfr0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d highly recommend it to any discouraged Democrat hoping to replace our next president with a better trump card.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that for the next four years much of my eclectification will be directed at how to deal with what I fear may become a political malignancy. I keep looking for silver linings. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/11\/24\/503236202\/what-will-presidential-relations-be-like-between-trump-and-putin\">heard a plausible one on NPR<\/a> yesterday from Mikheil Saakashvili, former President of the former USSR Republic Georgia who futilely pleaded with the west to intervene before Vladimir Putin invaded his new nation. Despite Trump&#8217;s shrugging off NATO, Saakashvili suspects that Trump will be more than a match for Putin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 3 or 4 days my early morning brain has been assaulted repeatedly with plethoras &#8211; plethoras of ideas. Sleep might have&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533"}],"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=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18545,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions\/18545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}