{"id":411,"date":"2006-06-28T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:21:35","slug":"storming-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Storming Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very busy; too busy to post yesterday. I&#8217;ve been puttering around with a campaign website\u00c2\u00a0which I&#8217;ll soon be\u00c2\u00a0uploading. I&#8217;ve just ordered the domain name. There aren&#8217;t too many candidates named Welty, thank goodness. I just ordered a taxpayer identification number for\u00c2\u00a0my committee of one and yesterday put in a rush order for campaign literature. I&#8217;ve been sending a flurry of emails back and forth over its layout. Today I need to open a campaign banking account. Filing for office begins the day after July 4th. I will need to get a thousand signatures on a petition of nomination. I did it all by myself in four day in 1992. Once I\u00c2\u00a0start campaigning\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll use this blog as my campaign diary.<\/p>\n<p>We left Washington last week just as heavy rainstorms broke out. They flooded the national archives and many other Federal buildings as well as knocking\u00c2\u00a0down a 100 year old Elm on the front lawn of the White House.\u00c2\u00a0I probably\u00c2\u00a0snapped a picture of it when I was there although like everything else on the grounds it was behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends emailed us about the weather we escaped. I didn&#8217;t realize just how serious it was. Amtrak had to be closed down\u00c2\u00a0so they couldn&#8217;t commute into the Capital. Now if I could just figure out how to storm DC like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very busy; too busy to post yesterday. I&#8217;ve been puttering around with a campaign website\u00c2\u00a0which I&#8217;ll soon be\u00c2\u00a0uploading. I&#8217;ve just ordered the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}