{"id":1909,"date":"2009-04-03T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:18:21","slug":"dealing-with-my-personal-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with my &#8220;personal issues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Budgeteer is publishing two letters-to-the-editor on the Red Plan in this week. Both can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/116717\/group\/Budgeteer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first seconds Ralph Doty&#8217;s comments and raises the mysterious question of my motivations for fighting the Red Plan. The conclusion, unstated of course, is that I&#8217;m a crank:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doty speculated about what that motivation might be, but, really, it is unknown &#8211; perhaps even to Welty himself. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s good to focus much public attention on what he says while he is dealing with whatever personal issues he has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following letter is from my old adversary Mike Jaros. Mike sticks up for me. He probably has personal issues too, like <em><strong>justice<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>common sense <\/strong><\/em>and naive belief in <strong>the right to vote<\/strong>. Sheesh! What kind of a crazy country churns out weirdos like Mike and me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Budgeteer is publishing two letters-to-the-editor on the Red Plan in this week. Both can be read here. The first seconds Ralph Doty&#8217;s comments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20780,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/20780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}