{"id":3093,"date":"2010-06-28T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2010-06-28T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:39:32","slug":"the-undead-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"The undead Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m off with my family listening to loons who escaped the Gulf Oil Spill I&#8217;m reduced to catching up on the Trib strictly on line. Today&#8217;s online story had what I presumed was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/apArticle\/id\/D9GK7EPO6\/\">story of Senator Robert Byrds death<\/a>. It was not. I learned that the Senator had died elsewhere on the Internet but the Trib&#8217;s online paper only had this summation of his life. I presume the paper version actually mentioned his death.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed criticizing Byrd&#8217;s porkish ways ever since he stuck the FBI fingerprinting lab in West Virginia. I admired him when he opposed George W Bush&#8217;s War in Iraq and the insinuation that it was unpatriotic to send soldiers off where they shouldn&#8217;t be. Pork got him elected and elected over to Congress and over starting when I was two years old.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of his 1920&#8217;s membership in the KKK. Shameful yes, but he&#8217;s apologized for it many times since. Sad to say but the Klan was a cross between Rotary and a band of vigilantes. It was a sign of distinction that many wore like Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black one of my heroes for his steadfast fight for 1st Amendment rights. It was a political stepping stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m off with my family listening to loons who escaped the Gulf Oil Spill I&#8217;m reduced to catching up on the Trib strictly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093"}],"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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}