{"id":30661,"date":"2020-05-23T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30661"},"modified":"2020-05-23T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:12:52","slug":"crowdsourced-proof-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30661","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourced proof reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepare to lock horns with Pete Stauber and the Evil Empire of President Trump, I could use some help with this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49910173997_f68dd26c45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have ten days of writing and preparation ahead of me to get the text written and organized for this book. Eleven days from now, June 2nd. (or before), I must travel to the office of the Minnesota Secretary of State in St. Paul and file for Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The last five days I have been doing the work of months roughing out two chapters a day. I have another ten days to rough out another six or seven chapters. I&#8217;ve been putting the book together like a jigsaw puzzle telling voters what I think they need to know about me and scraping off <em>at least some<\/em> of what is distracting. I want to publish a book which is at least a little more finely tuned than a Presidential tweet.<\/p>\n<p>So, I hope to crowd-source my proof reading. Anyone interested in either a sneak preview or helping me mount my steed for my Quixote-like charge to topple giants will have their name pushed to the front of a very special line &#8211; the people I interview for my Congressional Office staff. <\/p>\n<p>As I write this my inclination is to give no more than two chapters to any individual proof reader. Once they&#8217;ve gotten their two chapters I want my proofers to get them back to me in two days. I hope enough volunteers step forward so that each chapter has at least a couple more eyes to pass over other than mine. <\/p>\n<p>I still have plenty of other book publishing related tasks ahead of me. I have to format the book, insert graphics, find a printer, get an ISBN number so that the book can be ordered from Amazon and other outlets and figure out how to set it up for Kindle and Nook downloads. <\/p>\n<p>If you would like to distract yourself from corona virus isolation with this flight of fancy send me an email at: <a href=\"mailto:harrywelty@charter.net\">harrywelty@charter.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net\/f\/136\/958\/9780307958136.OL.0.m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who would like to help me bake the bread?&#8221; Asked the the Little Red Hen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepare to lock horns with Pete Stauber and the Evil Empire of President Trump, I could use some help with this: I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,139,19,133,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30661"}],"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=30661"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30668,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30661\/revisions\/30668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}