{"id":23093,"date":"2017-09-20T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23093"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:21:33","slug":"burns-vietnam-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23093","title":{"rendered":"Burns, Vietnam 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped for a short meeting so that I could get to the second airing of the third PBS Vietnam installment. No such luck with the mulch discussion. You can watch it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sDAgx5Yfic\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sDAgx5Yfic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to wait until 10 to catch a repeated episode and took the occasion to stuff my campaign materials for later door to door work. It was tough staying awake for the next hour and a half because I&#8217;ve had some pretty short nights lately. Still I soldiered on.<\/p>\n<p>The chief takeaway from this episode was the loss of faith in our government because of officials and military men who refused to be honest about the developing debacle.<\/p>\n<p>I watched that debacle and that cynicism grow for a decade. I got married a few weeks before the government of South Vietnam fell. Most folks of that era don&#8217;t think American&#8217;s faith in their leaders survived it just as many Duluthians faith in our public schools took a hit over the Red Plan. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why my lawnsigns say: &#8220;Honesty is the best policy.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped for a short meeting so that I could get to the second airing of the third PBS Vietnam installment. No such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093"}],"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=23093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23098,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions\/23098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}