{"id":4085,"date":"2011-09-28T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:46:25","slug":"even-when-i-was-20-i-was-embarassed-by-20-something-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4085","title":{"rendered":"Even when I was 20 I was embarassed by 20-something certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m 60 I still feel the same way. Of course 60-something certainty can be even worse. Witness the Tea Party!<\/p>\n

My Buddy sent me a link <\/a>to the youtube “confrontation” between a somewhat ill spoken fan of Huey Newton challenging a wannabee Andrew Breitbart who was passing out U.S. Constitutions up at UMD. <\/p>\n

Both kids (I think that’s the operative description here) say things that are twisted out of context by the other. What do they think they are doing? Running for President. <\/p>\n

The Newton lover gets the worst of it because he’s doing the most talking. Its a good reminder of the adage: It is better to remain silent and have people think you a fool than to open it and prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m 60 I still feel the same way. Of course 60-something certainty can be even worse. Witness the Tea Party! My Buddy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}