{"id":424,"date":"2006-07-05T00:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T05:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2006-07-19T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T22:47:11","slug":"fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I will begin asking for people to sign my petition so that my name can be placed in nomination. I&#8217;ll probably go to\u00c2\u00a0Duluth&#8217;s lakewalk and invite the local media to\u00c2\u00a0drop by\u00c2\u00a0and interview me there. Its close to the several of the television stations and tomorrow may be a slow news day. If they come I&#8217;ll get coverage across a third of the Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my paypal account up but at the moment its not set up to take credit cards. I think I know how to resolve this but its 12:30 now and I ought to try to get a good nights rest.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln&#8217;s law partner Herndon said of Abe\u00c2\u00a0his mind\u00c2\u00a0was a little machine\u00c2\u00a0constantly working on\u00c2\u00a0his next political move. I&#8217;m much the same. Tonight I came home from a gorgeous display of fireworks over the harbor and a stiring performance of the DSSO (our symphony). Because Claudia is on the DSSO Board we sat in the VIP section. I had thought about taking my new bookmarks to pass out but ruled that out. I&#8217;m spending so much time already on the campaign that I need to shield my family from it to the best of my ability. Letting\u00c2\u00a0the campaign\u00c2\u00a0horn in on our family time would be unfair.<\/p>\n<p>As it is I put\u00c2\u00a0my first\u00c2\u00a05 hours this morning on it.\u00c2\u00a0I set it aside and Claudia and I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finkesberryfarm.com\/\">Finke&#8217;s Strawberry patch<\/a> to pick two gallons of beautiful berries. We drove back by way of Jay Cooke Park then froze our bounty saving enough for a shortcake for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>After a glass of wine on our return from the concert I spent some time doing to Grams what I did to Oberstar a few days ago. I think I&#8217;ve organized a simple and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/grams.htm\">compelling argument to keep him out of Congress<\/a>. That&#8217;s good timing because I&#8217;ll be passing out my bookmarks for the first time tomorrow and I want people to see both of the front runners for what they are. And drat! One of the folks I&#8217;ve been trying to entice to help me pointed out that I&#8217;ve got an &#8220;Its&#8221; when I should have an &#8220;It&#8217;s&#8221; in the bookmark. I emailed back that I hoped that there weren&#8217;t too many English majors in the District because I had just printed up 40,000 of the wrong pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I will begin asking for people to sign my petition so that my name can be placed in nomination. I&#8217;ll probably go to\u00c2\u00a0Duluth&#8217;s&#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\/424"}],"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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}