{"id":23710,"date":"2017-11-01T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23710"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:50:48","slug":"nebraska-temporary-title-will-reconsider-after-doctors-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23710","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska (temporary title &#8211; will reconsider after Doctor&#8217;s appointment)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about the last month I&#8217;ve been getting eager calls to appear on a television talk show broadcast out of Cloquet called &#8220;Harry&#8217;s Gang.&#8221; Its not my gang. Its a gang of politicos who meet in honor of Harry Newby, <em>may he rest in peace<\/em>. Harry was thirty years my senior and an active political analyst when I moved to Duluth 43 years ago. I listened to him grilling legislators every Sunday night when the legislature was in session. That was back when I coveted a seat in St. Paul in my twenties and early thirties.<\/p>\n<p>My buddies all think this invitation is set up as a trap for me because the person inviting me is working very hard to replace my ally Art Johnston on the School Board. As for me. I would be honored to appear on Newby&#8217;s namesake. Harry was always so keen to make the Minnesota legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicameralism\">unicameral<\/a>. Ah, Nebraska. It must be Heaven!<\/p>\n<p><em>More later. I&#8217;ve got to get ready to see a foot doctor to find out if I dare pass out the last couple thousand flyers I&#8217;ve spent hours stuffing.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OK, OK, I got distracted upon my return. These are the headings I will attack before I go to bed tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Left Foot<\/p>\n<p>Last Hope Island<\/p>\n<p>Brad Bennett&#8217;s New Friends<\/p>\n<p>My new friends<\/p>\n<p>Who did you vote for for President?<\/p>\n<p>Emails as a form of miscommunication and paranoia<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about the last month I&#8217;ve been getting eager calls to appear on a television talk show broadcast out of Cloquet called &#8220;Harry&#8217;s Gang.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710"}],"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=23710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23715,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710\/revisions\/23715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}