{"id":27927,"date":"2019-07-22T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27927"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:55:38","slug":"27927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27927","title":{"rendered":"Blood letting, bug eating and bludgeoning in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48350053397_206c73d92c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just back from donating my 13th gallon of blood. Its four draws past one hundred gallons which I <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/06\/15313_100_pints_of_blood\">celebrated in the Reader<\/a> last December. Too bad i mowed the lawn yesterday  because this would give me an excuse to put if off a day being so empty and all. I chose a bright green bandage and you can see my 13 gallon pin. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s bad luck or not. It doesn&#8217;t seem so. I just deposited five more donations which I think brought me over the $1000 figure which is a third of the way to being able to afford to print my book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working hard on the book and feeling confident that I will come close to making my self imposed October 24th deadline for having it ready for the printers. <\/p>\n<p>I sent my grandsons off with Claudia and their mother for a five-day family church camp. I forgot to show them that their Venus Fly trap can take care of itself. It&#8217;s many little clampers sat empty inside our house but when the warm weather hit I put them out by our garden. four biters are filled two of them with what I think are daddy-long-legs. At least it looks like a bunch of long legs are sticking out of the &#8220;mouths&#8221; all akimbo. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48350195457_36d0d89d78.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the absence of my family I&#8217;m hauling posterior to work on my campaign. I&#8217;m setting up <strong>Welty Press<\/strong> again after a hiatus that has lasted since 1992 when I published a book to sell for my Congressional Race against Jim Oberstar as an independent candidate. This time I do not plan to print 5000 copies but a tenth of that&#8230;..unless the sales pick up considerably. I can always print a second edition if there is enough demand. And I&#8217;ve got it figured I only need two hundred sales to roughly break even.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added another five sales to the thermometer. Its a small improvement but every little bit helps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48350237672_2ce3a2ac8c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep thinking of lame ways to bludgeon folks into dispensing with $15 (or more) bucks to finance my campaign&#8230;.like my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27919\">8 great reasons to buy the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just back from donating my 13th gallon of blood. Its four draws past one hundred gallons which I celebrated in the Reader last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-diary","category-school-board-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927","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=27927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27931,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927\/revisions\/27931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}