{"id":24816,"date":"2018-04-25T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24816"},"modified":"2018-04-25T08:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:50:37","slug":"one-more-reason-my-loyal-readers-will-remain-reduced-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24816","title":{"rendered":"One more reason why my loyal readers will remain reduced to 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24798\">I lost a reader<\/a> due to too much emphasis on the state of black America. My departed reader assured me that I had obviously been subjected to too much propaganda. Well, true to form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/25\/us\/lynching-memorial-alabama.html\">the first<\/a> of the New York Times pieces I will link to is about America&#8217;s new holocaust museum in Alabama. Duluth will be sending a delegation to this memorial as our infamous lynching is part of its story. If its mention of the treatment of an angry young wife who railed at her husband&#8217;s murderers is propaganda&#8230;&#8230;well, I will continue to subject my readers to it.<\/p>\n<p>The other article was a review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/24\/books\/review\/amy-chozick-chasing-hillary.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=mini-moth&#038;region=top-stories-below&#038;WT.nav=top-stories-below\">the book written<\/a> by a reporter who covered Hillary Clinton for ten years right up to her defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>And this same author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/16\/insider\/amy-chozick-political-reporter-memoir-chasing-hillary-clinton-read-a-lot-of-books.html?action=click&#038;contentCollection=Book%20Review&#038;module=RelatedCoverage&#038;region=EndOfArticle&#038;pgtype=article\">separately explains<\/a> the advice she was given before writing a book. It was: read lots of books. Since I keep putting off authoring my own book\/books I found the advice sensible.<\/p>\n<p>And last night I sent in my next column to the Duluth Reader&#8217;s Submissions email. The column will be titled: <strong>Swallowing Ham&#8217;s Sandwich.<\/strong> I can&#8217;t link to it yet but it begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story of Noah\u2019s Ark begins in chapter six of Genesis. My grandsons would tell me that Chapter six was afraid of Chapter 7 for good reason. Why? Because 7-8-9. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I lost a reader due to too much emphasis on the state of black America. My departed reader assured me that I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,95,4,86,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-housekeeping","category-books","category-my-gop-defection","category-not-eudora","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=24816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24824,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions\/24824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}