{"id":3222,"date":"2010-08-10T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2010-08-10T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:24:03","slug":"57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before donating my 57th pint of blood I was asked for a short interview at KBJR\/KDLH.  I tossed off about five quick sound bites mostly having to do with my faithlessness to the GOP. I explained that I&#8217;d felt estranged from the party for twenty years like an abused wife. That seemed to make sense to my interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got another interview possibility at 10AM if I win. Otherwise I&#8217;m just another has been pol once again.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman who received me at Memorial Blood Bank was a former Morgan Park student of mine. She wished me good luck. I&#8217;ll be taking my ease for the rest of the day under nurse&#8217;s orders. We blood donors aren&#8217;t supposed to lift any heavy objects for the rest of the day. I hope that doesn&#8217;t include a pen to fill out my ballot. That&#8217;s a little job that I still have to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before donating my 57th pint of blood I was asked for a short interview at KBJR\/KDLH. I tossed off about five quick sound bites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"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=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}