{"id":2698,"date":"2009-10-28T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2009-10-28T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:50:32","slug":"get-it-out-of-your-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Get it out of your system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first person to comment on the video ad uploaded to youtube, &#8220;truthinduluth&#8221; was a little dismissive of it and of me. <sniff, sniff.> (Its funny but my recollection was that a year ago <em>truthinduluth<\/em> used to give me a little credit when posting comments on the DNT&#8217;s online comment sections. I&#8217;m getting old so my memory is probably faulty.) I responded to Mr. T&#8217;s comment and suggested a spokesman for the other side that would be more than my equal. <\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid in fifth grade I almost had a chance to meet Red Skelton in Springfield, Illinois. I just missed him by minutes at the Lincoln grave site because I&#8217;d begged my Dad to tarry at the Lincoln home after a staff member rushed over to my family and told us breathlessly that the comedian was about to pay us a call. Had I let my Dad leave when he wanted to we would have found Red at the Lincoln grave site a few miles away. When we got to the cemetery another tourist rushed over to my family and told us breathlessly that Red Skelton had been there but just left &#8211; to visit the Lincoln home. That&#8217;s sort of how its been for me ever since I began fighting for a vote on the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GeUNIp4vH7I\">this old video <\/a>Red does an able job working with the same sort of material the Red Planners keep shoveling out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first person to comment on the video ad uploaded to youtube, &#8220;truthinduluth&#8221; was a little dismissive of it and of me. (Its funny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","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=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}