{"id":33128,"date":"2022-04-11T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33128"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:19:47","slug":"when-perception-is-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33128","title":{"rendered":"When perception is reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the  back side of a 1996 cartoon\/pamphlet I picked up at the Eighth District Convention a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51997703934_b862bee9e3_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My 12-year-old Grandson found it in my office among a little pile of stuff I&#8217;ve been picking up at Republican gatherings. He was astonished at its ridiculousness wrapped in cartoon seriousness. I didn&#8217;t blame him. I imagined copying its 24 pages of paranoia and commenting on them here. Gran&#8217;pa Jack was too late to save these kids.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2qru3puhm7uxm.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/image\/article\/015\/460\/15460\/header_custom\/15460_10118_887_Welty_1028.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>and heres <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/20\/111939-our-better-angels\">a link to a column prompted by yet another mass murder where none of the NRA&#8217;s &#8220;good guys&#8221; was around to intervene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To those who ask me why I&#8217;m not a Democrat and am returning to the GOP I ask this. Am I needed in the Democratic party to talk gun enthusiasts off the ledge? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the back side of a 1996 cartoon\/pamphlet I picked up at the Eighth District Convention a couple weeks ago. My 12-year-old Grandson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,47,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33128"}],"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=33128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33133,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33128\/revisions\/33133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}