{"id":33436,"date":"2022-05-23T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2022-06-04T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:45:56","slug":"you-catch-more-lies-a-good-catch-by-my-french-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33436","title":{"rendered":"You catch more lies&#8230;..a good catch by my French readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me. I sometimes rush between tasks I don&#8217;t take the care I should and that was true of the last post&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I was quoting my Mother&#8217;s old saying You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar&#8230;&#8230;only the post dropped off the F before lies.<\/p>\n<p>My French pen pal was puzzled by this thinking I was using word play so I explained it to her this way:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ooh xxxxxx, un erreur en mon part. Flies pas lies et si le lien ne fait marche, bon. J&#8217;ai besoin \u00e0 r\u00e9parer mon erreur  d&#8217;abord.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the link to my Spotify podcast wasn&#8217;t working either. I&#8217;ve been firing on all cylinders preparing for a spirited last 80 days of campaigning. I want to have maximum efficiency and from a paperwork standpoint. I am almost there. I have big plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way: The previous post was not intended to link to anything other than my campaign website. It wasn&#8217;t intended to link to a podcast by that name. Late last night I was building a conclusion for all future posts that would link to my campaign site AND show my donation button. In time my campaign website will get the lion&#8217;s share of views but for now it still has plenty of glitches that need to be ironed out. By the end of the week I should have accomplished that&#8230;&#8230; along with much more.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>I gave that &#8220;flies&#8221; post a memorable name so that I could easily find it and copy its HTML code into the end of future posts.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\/\">www.weltyforcongress.com<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52092328075_e66f517610_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to change American politics for the better? Set a trend. Send a little something to a Republican who likes Democrats. As my Mom always told me. &#8220;You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"RXG2R2TNZMBSE\" \/><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me. I sometimes rush between tasks I don&#8217;t take the care I should and that was true of the last post&#8230;.. I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,131,47,149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436"}],"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=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33444,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions\/33444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}