{"id":27321,"date":"2019-05-11T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27321"},"modified":"2019-05-11T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:40:34","slug":"27321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27321","title":{"rendered":"Look what I found!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Welty4Congress%202012\/Images\/Impossible%20URL%206%20in.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Checking my blog stat page I discovered that my old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Welty4Congress%202012\/index.htm\">Congressional Campaign website from 2012<\/a> can still be found. I thought it had disappeared from the Internet. I forgot that I&#8217;d once put my URL into a snow sculpture. Its a sculpture I remember being very disappointed in but looking at it now, 7 years later, its not so bad. <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d forgotten this race against Democrat Oberstar and former Senator Nolan. I actually got on Almanac North with my rivals that time. I&#8217;ve been thinking that running against Pete Stauber in the GOP primary last year was my third &#8220;run&#8221; for Congress. In fact, it was my fourth although all I did was spend 300 bucks to put my name on the ballot against a Trumplican. If, however, I were to do it <em>one more time<\/em> I think I&#8217;d put a lot more oompf into my campaign. But I may also have a school board race in me too. Helping choose a new Duluth Superintendent offers a powerful temptation. We can do better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always described myself as a Don Quixote with my long string of electoral losses. That fourth time I ran and finaly won an election my daughter was asked at my campaign party how she felt. She explained that for once she wouldn&#8217;t feel like putting a paper bag on her head at school the next day.<\/p>\n<p>That was in 1995 my 7th attempt at public office. I long ago got over the fear of losing an election. That fear is what has turned so many Republican politicians into zombies flushing Abe Lincoln down Donald Trump&#8217;s golden commode. Someone should send them all JFK&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Profiles-Courage-John-F-Kennedy\/dp\/B000U22HEK\">Profiles in Courage<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51IUDyN2YdL._AC_UL654_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read it in Junior High and it made a powerful impression on me. It reminds me of my take on a <strong>The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes<\/strong> which I published in the Reader 17 years ago this month: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/kingisnaked.htm\"><strong>The King is Naked. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope my version doesn&#8217;t prove prophetic: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking my blog stat page I discovered that my old Congressional Campaign website from 2012 can still be found. I thought it had disappeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,133,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321"}],"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=27321"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27331,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27321\/revisions\/27331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}