{"id":36679,"date":"2025-07-22T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36679"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:52:12","slug":"36679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36679","title":{"rendered":"The busy life of a not too retiring man, Pt. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36670\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36684\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must confess that Part 1 and Part 3 are very satisfying posts in a row. This one is about a crow but it begins with a French lesson, Dutch Elm and an update on a sociopath. In twenty minutes my paint crew is going to show up so maybe I can dispense with the prologue and get to the crow this afternoon&#8230;.its a good story.<\/p>\n<p>So, last night I decided to take a walk. Six hours of painting fine detail on a wall needed to be walked off. So I put on my ear buds to listen to Radio Nantes while I walked&#8230;(a French station) I had listened to Audible all day as I painted&#8230;.more French language stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get far before I noticed a small circular tag affixed to a very tall tree. As I got on my knees to take a picture the homeowner stepped out to walk her dog. We had a short conversation about the tree and she asked me if the tag described it as an American elm tree. It did. I told her my hometown of Topeka, Kansas was full of Elms when I was a kid that were busy dying of Dutch elm. I mentioned that in my mother&#8217;s generation a blight killed off American Chestnut trees as Ash trees now are succumbing to the Ash borer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54671610845_8db4de6727.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I continued on my way to Ordean East and decided to take a little walk around the school &#8230; My painters came and now I want to get to La La Land. I will be back to eat some crow&#8230;..or rather free some crow and deal with some sociopathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post I must confess that Part 1 and Part 3 are very satisfying posts in a row. This one is about&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679"}],"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=36679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36686,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions\/36686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}