{"id":2226,"date":"2009-06-13T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2009-06-13T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:42:29","slug":"cranes-and-ostriches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Cranes and Ostriches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have only been about two nights on my week-long vacation that I didn&#8217;t awake in the middle of the night and stew about all the work that lies ahead. I&#8217;ve got to raise $100,000. We&#8217;ve got to get an EIS ordered on the Ordean site and make sure the City Planning Commission doesn&#8217;t do any pimping for Johnson Controls and the local contractors who stand to make some serious multiplier effect money if only they are permitted to cram an elephant into a phone booth. Finally, I&#8217;ve got to finish nailing down four candidates who will sweep out the School Board in the fall elections. At least they&#8217;ll be shoo-ins.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ignoring my email until today. I read the 100 or so messages waiting for me while the sun rose over Kangaroo Lake here in Door County this morning. A couple of sandhill cranes have been walking on the lawn in front of our condo for the past couple mornings. A few minutes ago two of them broke out in the most cacophonous call I&#8217;ve ever heard. I&#8217;d been glued to the computer and hadn&#8217;t seen them but knew immediately it had to be them. <\/p>\n<p>I think I also saw a small flock of whoopers fly overhead yesterday when we took the ferry to Washington Island. The Tan Man liked the Island&#8217;s Ostrich farm although I didn&#8217;t much care for it. We&#8217;ve already got too many of them back in Duluth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have only been about two nights on my week-long vacation that I didn&#8217;t awake in the middle of the night and stew about&#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\/2226"}],"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=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}