{"id":26411,"date":"2018-10-30T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:15:22","slug":"who-was-working-to-save-the-united-states-in-1860-oh-nevermind-have-a-few-seconds-of-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26411","title":{"rendered":"Who was working to save the United States in 1860? Oh Nevermind!  Have a few seconds of smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26288\">3-and-a-half hour lunch<\/a> emailed me to tell me that one of his &#8220;spies&#8221; had reported to him that I was at yesterday&#8217;s Duluth remembrance for the murdered Pittsburgers. My posts for the month have been almost universally worrisome. At breakfast today Claudia asked me what I was mentally conspiring to do. It was a far away look in my mind. I told her that it has occurred to me that I&#8217;m about to commit the rest of my life to the cause Abraham Lincoln lost hold of on April 15th 1864.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about that. Our era needs a Will Rogers. This my help until she is found. Here&#8217;s what I posted about on Facebook last Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our car trunk, one of 17, at Glen Avon Presbyterian, ate a succession of children this afternoon, tempted by treats on it&#8217;s tongue. Only the Joker escaped unscathed&#8230;.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1956\/45608392821_1fc1b15448.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1915\/45608398741_6b590df0a1_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1933\/31736152298_36d3f09b32_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1919\/45557835722_f3e2173817_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1960\/31736149348_2525f0566c_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1903\/45608426251_b248ddc72b_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1901\/45557850652_6cb6aed997_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A friend of mine suggested that we were the only car that had been decorated. I replied<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no, all seventeen cars were decorated. Ours was the only one that bit back.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend from the 3-and-a-half hour lunch emailed me to tell me that one of his &#8220;spies&#8221; had reported to him that I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","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=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26423,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}