{"id":2244,"date":"2009-06-18T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2009-06-18T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:12:45","slug":"babysitting-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Babysitting Applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m too pooped to write the serious posts now. I can hardly keep my eyes open and I won&#8217;t  be watching the 10 O&#8217;clock news. But I&#8217;ll relate this.<\/p>\n<p>After a day racing around to donors, city councilors, getting checks to pay newspaper advertising bills and much much more I ended the day babysitting the Tan Man.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 we went over to the shaded grove of trees by Ordean to listen to a trio of LDV related folks. I put the Tan Man on my knees and fed him chicken nuggets and french fries. Afterward we put together the train tracks I brought for his Thomas the Tank Engine collection. When he tired of these he led me on a merry chase through the legs of attendees. for twenty minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Then I got my chance. I swung Tanner around like the man on the flying trapeze and began a discourse on how even if we lose the case because we can&#8217;t afford the $100,000 bond I was finally confident that the Red Plan would die a still birth. When I was finished the group broke out in an ovation for me. <\/p>\n<p>I murmured that we did look a little like members of Cirque de Soleil. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so bushed I don&#8217;t think this makes sense. I&#8217;ll fix it up in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m too pooped to write the serious posts now. I can hardly keep my eyes open and I won&#8217;t be watching the 10 O&#8217;clock&#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\/2244"}],"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=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}