{"id":513,"date":"2006-07-29T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-08-06T05:20:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T10:20:54","slug":"a-very-good-day-and-very-little-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"A very good day and very little campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a fundraising letter I got today from Mrs. Mark Kennedy, wife of the Republican candidate for Minnesota&#8217;s US Senate Seat, there are only a little more than 100 days to campaign. I won&#8217;t be doing much of that for the next six days that I&#8217;m playing host to my father-in-law. I also will take two weeks out of early September for a vacation that has been a year in the planning. If I can&#8217;t win this election without mucking up my family I&#8217;d rather not get elected at all.<\/p>\n<p>Our legislatures and the halls of Congress are full of pols who shucked off their spouses for their political ambitions. Besides, my\u00c2\u00a0wife&#8217;s constant irritation with politics helps remind me about what&#8217;s really important in life.<\/p>\n<p>Today Claudia and I took Dad to pick blueberries. As so often happens I got carried away and we ended up picking twelve pounds of them when I decided I\u00c2\u00a0had to have lots of blueberry jam.\u00c2\u00a0Then\u00c2\u00a0while we were driving home I though of the bountiful chokecherries I&#8217;d seen a couple blocks down from our house.<\/p>\n<p>After a long productive\u00c2\u00a0afternoon in the kitchen we now have about 12 cups of blueberry jam and 8 cups of chokecherry jelly. I love PBJ sandwhiches. It will be a very good year. We also have five fat freezer bags full of blueberries in the freezer.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have more antioxidents coursing through my\u00c2\u00a0veins than you can shake a stick at for the rest of the campaign. Blueberries are much better than spinach and I&#8217;m sure will help me prevail over the two Blutos\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c2\u00a0everybody else expects to win this race.<\/p>\n<p>Between blueberries and chokecherries we saw a marvelous old movie from 1942 with Claudete Colbert, Robert Stack, and Jack Benny. <em>To be or not to be <\/em>was remade ten or so years ago by Mel Brooks. I never saw the Brooks movie but I remember Siskle and Ebert saying what a wonderful movie the original was.\u00c2\u00a0It was a hoot and had a million times\u00c2\u00a0more bite\u00c2\u00a0than Chaplin&#8217;s <em>The Great Dictator<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Even my father-in-law whose not much of a movie watcher got a kick out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and one more thing, when I checked my email late tonight I discovered that the Unity Party is not at all put out about my flirtation with the Independence Party&#8230;..We can be a regular political menage a trois.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a fundraising letter I got today from Mrs. Mark Kennedy, wife of the Republican candidate for Minnesota&#8217;s US Senate Seat, there are&#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\/513"}],"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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}