{"id":2280,"date":"2009-06-25T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2009-06-25T12:13:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:13:02","slug":"im-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way out of my room carrying my disconnected computer and camera I realized I could take a picture of the masses thundering out of the hotel. (I just now remembered I packed in such a hurry I didn&#8217;t bring the cord to do this) An announcement ordered me to go down the stairways and avoid the elevators. On the way out of the room I picked up the $20 room service tip I&#8217;d left on the table thinking it would be a waste for it to burn. The Chinese room service women were waiting to let the guests out first. I waved the bill at one of them and explained that I would put it back if the Marriott didn&#8217;t burn down. Then I told them I wouldn&#8217;t leave the building unless they went first.<\/p>\n<p>I got three flights down when the Fire Marshall took over the loud speaker to tell us there was no fire. <em>Ah ha, Dr. Dixon, you thought you had me against the ropes yet again but there are some things even your influence is to puny to overcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After I got the computer up and running again I checked my email and discovered that in the fifteen minutes I was gone another person had sent us a donation through our paypal account. Go down a couple posts to the one called Donate to make use of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten about five since leaving Duluth totaling about $260.  This one was for $100. I haven&#8217;t counted them yet because I didn&#8217;t bring my password to have the donations transferred to the LDV accounts. Of course, I couldn&#8217;t even open the account to see how much was there. Its been a couple months since I last looked at it. There should be close to $700 more in there that we&#8217;ll be able to add to the kitty. I called my daughter and left her a message asking her to look on my secret password list for it and to call me back with it.<\/p>\n<p>If push comes to shove I can probably draw a little larger cashiers check on Tuesday than I&#8217;ve promised to donate as long as I can be sure enough donations will come in to pay me back within a week or so. I hope a few more of us will do that on the strength of last minute donations. I don&#8217;t think the Sixth District Court will object to a half dozen cashhiers checks so long as they all add up to $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked my supporters to send me phone numbers today of people who would likely contibute because I&#8217;m making calls to them from San Francisco to raise more money. If any of my readers has the phone number of a prospect email it to me at harrywelty@charter.net. There&#8217;s a link to my email on the page called &#8220;talk back&#8221; on the top of the long list to the right of this post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m skipping my tour of the treasures of King Tut to do this. Wish I could scrape off a little of the gold on his sarcophgus. I hear gold prices have been going up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way out of my room carrying my disconnected computer and camera I realized I could take a picture of the masses thundering&#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\/2280"}],"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=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}