{"id":35598,"date":"2025-02-11T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35598"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:35:18","slug":"yesterday-i-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35598","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday I finished &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 500 piece jig saw puzzle my snow sculpture and the 320 page book on the Chinese Typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>Today I haven&#8217;t done much. I did rehang my monkey army which will last longer in the back than the snow in the front unless someone steals them. I did watch a harrowing American Experience at noon that I missed last November of the military takeover of the government by Trumpian racists in North Carolina in 1898 that Karl Rove&#8217;s tariff loving president, William McKinley, couldn&#8217;t send federal troop to quell because he was up for reelection in 1900.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/media\/__sized__\/canonical_images\/film\/AMEX_AmericanCoupWilmington1898_Horiz_lo-res-resize-1400x0-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/american-coup-wilmington-1898\/\">more on the coup here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The previous two days I saw an excellent part 1 and 2 on the Great Migration narated by Ancestry buff Gates on PBS the fellow who had a neighbor call the cops on him because she was alarmed to see him enter his own house in her neighborhood back in the first year of Obama&#8217;s presidency when Barack said the obvious that there was just a little race paranoia at work white America went bananas and he had to quell the disquiet with what he called a &#8220;beer summit&#8221; between Gates and the cop who came to arrest him. And two lunches before that I saw the relatively ancient two part-er on Thomas Jefferson by Ken Burns that were exceptionally complete pictures of the man over three hours. So, I&#8217;ve been getting my history in even as I let my writing slide.<\/p>\n<p>A friend sent me a cheery email on Tad and Dad a column I won&#8217;t link to until it appears in the Duluth Reader but here is my finished sculpture <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54321100321_507f891a64.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the warlock with his monkey army in back<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54321816994_87f221343b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 500 piece jig saw puzzle my snow sculpture and the 320 page book on the Chinese Typewriter. Today I haven&#8217;t done much. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,100,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598"}],"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=35598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35620,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions\/35620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}