{"id":3226,"date":"2010-08-12T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2010-08-12T06:37:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:37:40","slug":"swan-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Swan Song 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must have needed a day to recover from the primary. I spent it outside in high humidity for ten hours cleaning out my garage. I started the work a couple weeks ago but had a lot left to do. Now I can park our Traverse in both sides without losing either its antenna or side view mirrors. <\/p>\n<p>The garage has always been my lowest priority. Its last reorganization\/fix up probably took place fifteen years ago. Two weeks ago it took two visits to the materials recycling center (the old landfill) to empty its contents. Now I have one more visit to make to get rid of my old lawnsigns. <\/p>\n<p>When my daughter kindly told me that I didn&#8217;t do so badly I gave her the sober truth that I&#8217;d been creamed. I told her I had to have lost in every precinct and sure enough I did. I just checked this morning. I haven&#8217;t lost in every precinct since I lost to Mike Jaros thirty and more years ago.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I owe Mike a great debt for his enthusiastic endorsement. I hope he&#8217;s not too stung by my loss because the loss is all mine.<\/p>\n<p>I told the cameraman who stopped by Tuesday night for a perfunctory interview with the loser that this was my political swan song. Actually I think I told a reporter much the same thing after I lost my last race too.  I&#8217;ll be content to be a local eccentric from now on. <\/p>\n<p>Much of the drive for this blog has been the Red Plan and\/or possible campaigns for public office. For my eight loyal readers there will probably be a significant drought in content in the coming weeks\/months not unlike the respite following the dismissal of the  taxpayer&#8217;s lawsuit last November. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some other work to attend to, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votelikeitcounts.com\/donate.htm\">a book<\/a> to finish editing before Christmas. I&#8217;ve given myself until December. Now that my garage is clean there will be no stopping me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have needed a day to recover from the primary. I spent it outside in high humidity for ten hours cleaning out my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}