{"id":2110,"date":"2009-05-16T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2009-05-16T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T10:03:47","slug":"in-the-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"In the Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another of those days where it was impossible to keep up with all the posts that seemed important. I had an ongoing family crisis that should have taken up the entire day but I simply had to set it aside except for some emails. <\/p>\n<p>At eleven I hurried over the my monthly, third-friday gig serving (or cooking) food at the Damaino Soup Kitchen. I&#8217;ve been doing it since Ronald Reagan was President and America discovered homelessness. There were a lot more fit working aged men in line yesterday &#8211; a sign of the times.<\/p>\n<p>Serving with me was my old choir mentor a retired Sixth District Judge. He&#8217;s asked me about my struggle with the District over the past couple months and I&#8217;ve enjoyed his disapproval of the School Board. Too bad he&#8217;s retired.<\/p>\n<p>As I was ladling out pork gravy on noodles he asked me what I made of Dr. Dixon and he didn&#8217;t seem to surprised at my assessment. I&#8217;m sure the non editorial following his two-hour interview cosseted with his cheering section at the Trib prompted the judge&#8217;s inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dixon&#8217;s confidence and remorselessness with the truth are breathtaking. I&#8217;ve warned some of my supporters not to call Dr. Dixon a liar in letters to the editor. The word is so charged and it could provoke a backlash and simply draw Dr. Dixon sympathy from his loyalists that he does not deserve. Fortunately, he&#8217;s pulled out so many whoppers out of the lake that he could be a fisherman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another of those days where it was impossible to keep up with all the posts that seemed important. I had an ongoing&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}