{"id":31844,"date":"2020-09-14T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T03:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31844"},"modified":"2020-09-14T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T04:01:29","slug":"after-a-summer-of-zipping-my-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31844","title":{"rendered":"After a summer of zipping my lips…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…about a great many things that weren’t related to a campaign for Congress and another month of inactivity blog wise I’m both mentally relaxed and bursting with things left unsaid. <\/p>\n

As with my bathroom spiders many of the ideas are eccentric but I’ll mention the first book I’ve read through in some time. I just finished reading Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste<\/a> out loud to Claudia. I had previously read her Pulitzer winner Warmth of Other Suns to Claudia covering the Great Migration. This book was equally worthwhile. It contained a few anecdotes that were new, some new insights and in many ways it said a lot of the things on my mind but which I am only witness to as a member of the white upper crust. <\/p>\n

It is powerful motivation to get writing again but I’m now preparing for it by getting some long put off jobs around the house out of the way. I jut got an estimate for fixing up some damage from the boulder a city snow plow shoved into the corner of my garage last winter. For a sort of small task its a little rich so I may spend a day fixing it myself. Meanwhile I started putting a long overdue new coat of stain on the fences around my back yard. The color is no longer made and I used an ancient can of Valspar Greenstone after several hours of sanding the fencing. Now I’m out of it and need more for some different segments of wall. It was a nice day to work although we had a California overcast which cooled us off a couple degrees. California has been giving my brother in St. Louis has been getting red skies out of the Edvard Munch painting the Scream. Although it was a recent volcanic eruption that blooded artist Munch’s skies.<\/p>\n

Sorry, that’s all I have for my eight loyal readers. I just wanted to assure you that you have not been forgotten. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…about a great many things that weren’t related to a campaign for Congress and another month of inactivity blog wise I’m both mentally relaxed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844"}],"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=31844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31847,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844\/revisions\/31847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}