{"id":22399,"date":"2017-07-08T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T00:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22399"},"modified":"2017-07-08T19:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T00:35:59","slug":"the-schmeercase-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22399","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Schmeercase Affair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a test to see if I could post a cell phone recording to you-tube. Yup! My intention has been to record the speech I gave, <em>but which the sound system prevented me from broadcasting<\/em>, to the DFL endorsing convention. This is my reading of a brief anecdote about General Joseph Stillwell in Barbara Tuchman&#8217;s Pulitzer Prize winning biography about &#8220;Vinegar Joe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtDSvev3ogc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you will see my cell phone stopped recording after its memory was overloaded but at a convenient point in the anecdote. <\/p>\n<p>In order to upload it I had to free up some space and I did so by removing all my picture files which had already been uploaded to my Flickr account and which are in the Cloud. I am about to upgrade my cell phone which is a Samsung 5 while 8 is the current Samsung favorite. I have a reduced priced upgrade available and I want it to have a better cell phone camera for my trip to China. I plan on taking the Stillwell book with me and hope the Chinese don&#8217;t confiscate it when we arrive. I haven&#8217;t found it on the list of books they won&#8217;t let in. We have a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/list\/show\/4808.Banned_CHINA_Books\">those banned books<\/a> on our shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a test to see if I could post a cell phone recording to you-tube. Yup! My intention has been to record the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,95,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399"}],"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=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22406,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions\/22406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}