{"id":32146,"date":"2021-04-29T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T03:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32146"},"modified":"2021-04-29T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T03:23:03","slug":"the-monsters-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32146","title":{"rendered":"The Monsters We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/118\/113\/118113\/header_1080x\/19385_the_tragic_prelude_john_brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My latest Reader Column begins:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was born in the cradle of the Republican Party \u2013 Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my 55 years residence in Mayonnaise Minnesota, I think my birthright gives me a better handle on today\u2019s Republican party than Canadian-born columnist David Brooks. <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2021\/04\/29\/118113-the-monsters-we-need\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest Reader Column begins: I was born in the cradle of the Republican Party \u2013 Kansas. Despite my 55 years residence in Mayonnaise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,31,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-gods-own-party","category-not-eudora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146","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=32146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32148,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146\/revisions\/32148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}