{"id":2739,"date":"2009-12-12T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2009-12-12T01:51:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T06:51:21","slug":"staring-into-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"Staring into the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canvaz.com\/moran\/moran-022.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.canvaz.com\/moran\/moran-022.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI began our Christmas jigsaw puzzle tonight. 1000 pieces of a painting by the artist Thomas Moran. One of his paintings convinced Congress to establish Zion National Park. This is a jigsaw of his painting of the Grand Canyon. Claudia got the full edge put together while I sorted pieces by color. We&#8217;ve been buying puzzles from locales we&#8217;ve vacationed at for about ten years. After the election in November we traveled all over the Colorado Plateau. When I wasn&#8217;t in clinics with a face mask or on the phone talking to attorneys and bankers to complete a short sale I was leaning against the window of our car emptying out Kleenex boxes while my better half drove me all over Utah, Colorado and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon we took the afternoon off and went to the movie <em>Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em>. It was very droll. We treated ourselves to lunch before the movie and my Red Plan counterpart, Mimi Larson, stopped by our table. She asked how my book was coming along. I told her I&#8217;d been busy, which is true, and said I was still working on getting our $100,000 bond back.  I thought this would have been worked out a month ago when we ..oops&#8230;.. Sorry. We only get one crack at a press release and this might count.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting samples of Howie Hanson&#8217;s help in promoting the Red Plan. Golly, If my side had done just a little better this election maybe I could collect a couple thousand for my help posting info on the web. I suppose this post election spoils stuff will have to be squeezed into an epilogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began our Christmas jigsaw puzzle tonight. 1000 pieces of a painting by the artist Thomas Moran. One of his paintings convinced Congress to&#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-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}