{"id":32768,"date":"2022-02-01T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32768"},"modified":"2022-02-01T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:36:06","slug":"a-very-nice-february-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32768","title":{"rendered":"A very nice February First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I actually had a nice long sit down with the publisher of the Reader. We were both masked of course. We reviewed his plans. I am intrigued. They may keep me a little busy over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>I had a very nice day substitute teaching today, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>I returned a call from local scientists about the possibility of removing sulphur from mining waste. I had recently heard there was important work being done on this and I fished for some info. There is work being done. I got the call back. It&#8217;s made some ideas I have seem very worthy of pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>I attended the Republican Precinct Caucuses tonight. I was one of the few people wearing a mask. <\/p>\n<p>The first person I spoke to at the Caucuses was the Minneapolis Star Tribune&#8217;s Duluth Reporter. Jana Hollingsworth drove past my house as I was working on King Kong and stopped to take some pictures a couple weeks ago. I&#8217;m not quite sure there was anything in it worthy of a Star Trib story although I&#8217;ve made it in the Strib in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Jana saw me again tonight and zeroed in on me when she arrived to cover the caucuses. She asked me if I meant to be at the GOP caucus. I said of course I did. She pulled out her note pad and asked me who I supported for Governor. &#8220;Walz&#8221; I told her. Jana did a double take &#8230;..I&#8217;ll save the rest for the Reader. Just before heading to bed I checked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesotans-gather-at-precinct-caucuses-with-eye-on-critical-midterm-election\/600142057\/\">the Strib&#8217;s online story<\/a> about the statewide caucuses. There was just a mention of the 50 or so Republicans. (A dramatically pathetic number of attendees for eastern Duluth) I&#8217;m not quite sure there was anything in my short interview worthy of a Star Trib mention although my previous political antics have earned a couple footnotes there.<\/p>\n<p>It might be different this year.<\/p>\n<p>When I left the caucuses I walked over to a couple DFLers who were at a small desk to show DFLers where to caucus for the few that wanted to skip zoomy caucuses. I mentioned that the low numbers of Republicans ought to give the Democrats some encouragement for the election. They seemed pleased to hear this.<\/p>\n<p>I came home energized. So much so, that I stayed up to watch another French Detective show. I didn&#8217;t even doze off despite the long day of teaching. I&#8217;ll substitute again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>After work tomorrow I&#8217;ll have five free days to continue my planning, plotting and considering how to save America from the Charles Manson wing of the Republican Party. That&#8217;s the one Timmy McVeigh helped promote by blowing up that Federal Building in Oklahoma. He too was eager to start a race war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I actually had a nice long sit down with the publisher of the Reader. We were both masked of course. We reviewed his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,47,133,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32768"}],"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=32768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32770,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32768\/revisions\/32770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}