{"id":38482,"date":"2026-05-14T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38482"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:27:45","slug":"painting-granite-my-latest-column-in-the-duluth-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38482","title":{"rendered":"Painting Granite &#8211; My latest column in the Duluth Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38473\">A Man who did clean up the swamp<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38489\">Is our Attorney General really a scoundrel?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55099597489_cd28819125_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Donate to, Support or learn about the last lincoln republican. Click here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\">Weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/134\/513\/134513\/header_1080x\/28875_20260424_103159.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After starting a war that is tanking the economy of Southeast Asia, leaving millions of north Africans a few months from mass starvation and giving Iran more power than ever with its cheapo drones while blowing up $25 billion worth of very expensive weapons and handing the Ayatollahs control of the world\u2019s oil while we pay $4 a gallon for gasoline, Donald Trump has gotten bored with the Persian Gulf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2026\/05\/14\/134513-painting-granite\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: A Man who did clean up the swamp Next Post: Is our Attorney General really a scoundrel? Donate to, Support or learn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,25,148,127,168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482"}],"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=38482"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38495,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions\/38495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}