{"id":26931,"date":"2019-02-18T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26931"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:11:01","slug":"26931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26931","title":{"rendered":"Serious Family News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my Eight loyal readers,<\/p>\n<p>I have had something on my mind for several weeks which helps explain the paucity of my posts. An inquiry from my Father&#8217;s Aunt Nancy a couple minutes ago merited a reply. In fact, after finishing it I decided it was as good a way as any to bring my readers up to speed on the personal side of my life.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside. I came home from my rehearsal with the Duluth Symphony Chorus tonight and found Claudia listening to a CNN New Hampshire Town Hall for Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. We were both very impressed. <\/p>\n<p>Now to Aunt Nancy&#8217;s email<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, Harry <\/p>\n<p>Reports are the you have had huge snowfalls this winter.\u00a0 Are you still creating wonderful sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>And, is there a sight where I can view?  All is well here \u2014 just huge amounts to rain and more on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is a lot more reply than Aunt Nancy probably expected:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nancy, Happy New Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>February has been very generous. Around 30 inches. But I got my sculpting in earlier. Just after the new year a big baby ended up on my lawn. He had cheeto colored skin. Someone knocked his head off so I made a replacement sculpture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check this news story out for &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4551237-duluthian-creates-trump-snow-sculpture\">https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4551237-duluthian-creates-trump-snow-sculpture<\/a> &#8211; the first sculpture then this news story about its replacement.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kbjr6.com\/news\/top-stories\/2019\/01\/14\/welty-changes-\">https:\/\/kbjr6.com\/news\/top-stories\/2019\/01\/14\/welty-changes-<\/a>u<\/p>\n<p>The last couple weeks I have been more focused on Claudia. To our surprise she Learned she needed an aortic heart valve replacement. The surgery is tomorrow morning. We will check into the hospital at 5:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia&#8217;s health is stellar and the operation while dramatic has become routine. We are optimistic she will come through like a trooper. I will keep you posted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my Eight loyal readers, I have had something on my mind for several weeks which helps explain the paucity of my posts. An&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931"}],"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=26931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26940,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions\/26940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}