{"id":23008,"date":"2017-09-14T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23008"},"modified":"2017-09-14T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:03:57","slug":"card-43-out-of-50-one-card-short-of-a-full-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23008","title":{"rendered":"Card 43 out of 50 &#8211; One card short of a full deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4422\/37033667306_576e8fe3f0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have always been pleased by this snow sculpture. And yet at Bayfront Park&#8217;s Fall Fest one person winced when he looked at it. He was a teacher and was instinctively repulsed. Even after I explained its meaning he gladly accepted my offer of a more harmless looking snowsculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Loren Martell warned me against using the spanking card (<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22819\">card 22 of 50<\/a>) but I think even opponents of corporal punishment will find it sort of amusing. BUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG???????<\/p>\n<p>I took great care to explain this all to Robin Washington, one-time editor of the DNT, after he called to warn me <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8657\">kids were threatening to burn my house down over this sculpture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After re-reading that post I realized there was little left for me to write about this 43rd card in my deck of 50, <em>EXCEPT THIS<\/em>: While I will keep it in the deck I send to donors I will pull every card 43 out of the cards that I pass out door-to-door or at events like Fall Fest. I think the other 49 cards in the deck will give this potent message of protest against the <em>heroically denied<\/em> racism of the neo-GOP a little context and cover. And it completes the deck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And I will offer this for the <em>irony challenged<\/em>. This is a <em>Rebel<\/em> Elephant carrying the flag of the old Confederacy&#8230;&#8230;The Elephant being the revered symbol of the <em>Republican Party<\/em>&#8230;..The party that was long called <em>&#8220;The Party of Lincoln&#8221;<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;.who freed the slaves. They&#8217;ve been infested by southern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/06\/25\/417154906\/dixies-long-journey-from-democratic-stronghold-to-republican-redoubt\">Dixiecrat descendants<\/a> whose grandparents loathed Honest Abe&#8230;..That&#8217;s why you rarely hear of Lincoln Day Dinners anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope that makes it clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been pleased by this snow sculpture. And yet at Bayfront Park&#8217;s Fall Fest one person winced when he looked at it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008"}],"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=23008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23019,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008\/revisions\/23019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}