{"id":29054,"date":"2019-10-21T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29054"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:25:18","slug":"alanna-warned-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29054","title":{"rendered":"Alanna warned me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous post is about my proposed book. No. I realized early on I would probably not finish it on time. Alanna Oswald, bless her heart, was worried after reading some of my posts on the subject that I would make a lot of folks angry for reneging on my book writing promise. It wouldn&#8217;t be that many people. Its less than 75 orders and frankly, most of them would probably forgive me since getting me on the school board is probably their first concern. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I promised a book once before on the history of the Red Plan. Readers of the Duluth Reader all got something of a free summary as it was. But I mailed back $800.00 worth of pre-orders when I realized I didn&#8217;t have the heart to keep writing that book. If I don&#8217;t get this book done I&#8217;ll do the same thing. Refund everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer my priorities have shifted a little like thoroughbreds on a race course. At first it was running for Congress to deprive Donald Trump of friendly congressmen. Running for School Board was intended as a stepping stone and a book on my education was a trial run for a book about my experience with America&#8217;s politics which I hoped might help me fund that Congressional Change. But the summer has changed that. <\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m fully invested in turning the Duluth Schools around. I can imagine filing again to challenge Pete Stauber but really&#8230;.. we all know how that would almost certainly turn out. BUT YOU CAN&#8217;T STOP AN IDEALIST FROM DREAMING.<\/p>\n<p>And I do want to write that book on education. It will be personal and vintage Harry Welty. But, the timetable is likely to change. Instead of having that ready by year&#8217;s end I want more time to give it the care it deserves. In the meantime I plan to put together (As of now I&#8217;m planning) to put together a somewhat more whimsical book of my past writing. Just yesterday as one lady grabbed my lawnsign she told me in answer to my ads in the Reader&#8230;..&#8221;And yes we do read your columns.&#8221; I think I can get that cranked out in the month following the election and I&#8217;ll send it to my &#8220;purchasers&#8221; as an aperitif before the main course.<\/p>\n<p>In a more general sense my first priority has always been to pass the world on just a little bit better than I found it. I hope my writing can do that as it will live beyond me. Trouble is. We are starving and strangling and suffocating my grandson&#8217;s Earth. What can my puny skills at writing do to save their bacon? Nonetheless, writing has been my second priority since I wrote a book in 1992 to fund yet another (and my first) campaign for Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/VTTA\/visitto.htm\">It didn&#8217;t get me elected.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go ahead eight loyal readers. Shake your heads <em>but first<\/em> ask yourself&#8230;&#8230;What are you doing here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous post is about my proposed book. No. I realized early on I would probably not finish it on time. Alanna Oswald, bless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054"}],"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=29054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29059,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions\/29059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}