{"id":34152,"date":"2023-01-06T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34152"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:38:23","slug":"the-previous-post-begs-more-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34152","title":{"rendered":"The previous post begs more explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34150\">The previous post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blogging has taken a back seat for a couple reasons for several years. List of reasons<\/p>\n<p>1. I spend a couple hours a day practicing French.<\/p>\n<p>2. As I contemplated running for a third time for Congress I began writing Reader columns every week rather than every other week.<\/p>\n<p>3. Or I was busy campaigning for Congress. This would seem to invite blogging but I spent several months of the latest campaign converting old columns of mine to a podcast  <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6FGTU4CydEQJciC8dNPc5m\">NOT YOUR USUAL REPUBLICAN<\/a> which never took off. AND a website: <a href=\"https:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\/\">WeltyforCongress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. And last year I began substitute teaching as schools across the nation discovered sick teachers needed replacements at a time when there weren&#8217;t many available to plug into teacherless classes.  I limited myself to two days a week at first but even this meant my blogging took a hit. I don&#8217;t regret having done it. I&#8217;d been planning to sub since I was on the School Board twenty years ago but it took Covid to get me into classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>A second wave of Covid hit in the Fall of this year and I kept subbing at albeit at a different school Harborview International. <\/p>\n<p>I have been back in Duluth for a week and am contemplating taking up where I left off with my congressional campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little slower and I had three weeks in Denver, Colorado&#8217;s thinner air to test myself. I&#8217;ve had hard a concrete snow to push around since I got back as well. Both have made me second guess my fitness to fight for planet Earth, Democracy and my family&#8217;s future but I&#8217;ve been setting those guesses aside. Yesterday four hours of pushing snow was considerably less physically exhausting so long as I approached it like the turtle who defeated the hare in the race. <\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d put a few words on the blog before attacking my next column for the Reader. That column is already in a very rough draft and I jotted down on Wednesday. I have piled up the beginnings of a snow pile for what threatens to me my most complicated snow sculpture ever. Wish me luck. If I&#8217;m not called back to substitute teach I may find a little more leisure time to work my butt off some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous post Blogging has taken a back seat for a couple reasons for several years. List of reasons 1. I spend a couple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47,21,148,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34152"}],"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=34152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34153,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34152\/revisions\/34153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}