{"id":2306,"date":"2009-06-29T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2009-06-29T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:59:12","slug":"picking-up-my-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"Picking up my slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the LDV meeting tonight drained of all energy. The $100,000 I kept insisting to all the skeptics in the group we could raise seemed pretty far out of reach by the time I headed to the meeting. Some of the folks I&#8217;ve been trying to track down are making themselves scarce. Maybe its that farce of a story about how expensive and unproductive Plan B is compared to the Red Plan. <\/p>\n<p>Its Dixon&#8217;s blue light special. Tell the customers to spend twice as much by telling them it will only cost half as much. That&#8217;s the kind of economics which led to 2008&#8217;s recession. Keep the economy healthy by spending money you borrowed.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the LDV folks would have none of my defeatism tonight. They have become the believers. We won&#8217;t be standing corners holding out tin cups so I can only hope their confidence is borne out. We had $6,500 a few days before I left for San Francisco. Now nine days later we have almost $25,000. It would be a shame to fall short. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the LDV meeting tonight drained of all energy. The $100,000 I kept insisting to all the skeptics in the group we&#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\/2306"}],"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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}