{"id":34226,"date":"2023-05-19T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34226"},"modified":"2023-05-19T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:29:48","slug":"a-digression-about-the-picture-in-the-previous-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34226","title":{"rendered":"A digression about the picture in the previous post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like many far east Asians I have something of a shrine to my Father in my office. Its one of two small display cases I bought from Ikea. In this early morning picture which appropriately shows a reflection of me as I bent down to snap the pic you see a charcoal drawing of my father that my mother scratched out when I was in grade school in Topeka, Kansas. Below it is my Dad’s last electric shaver and some of the World War II memoirs that he devoured. <\/p>\n

You can also see some of my Dad’s old marbles. Some time before my Uncle Frank’s death I gave him a jar of those marbles because my Dad never let his little Brother play with them. I forgot that until I found the picture of the gift giving in an old photo album. <\/p>\n

I love making light of my Dad<\/a> but he helped make me who I am and I rather like myself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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