{"id":5483,"date":"2012-01-24T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:12:15","slug":"not-a-bookin-it-post-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"Not a Bookin it post yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know my eight regular readers have been eager for a snippet of the book in progress. Sorry, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time going through the thirty or so books I&#8217;ve read over the past six years to identify the passages and footnotes that I will be pulling from them. Its thirty down and five to go. (I saved the five biggest till last. They&#8217;ve given me a wonderful chronology of Minnesota&#8217;s&#8230;&#8230;<strong>.OMG!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I was typing that last sentence I thought of a book I hadn&#8217;t gone through. I turned around to get a good look at my bookcase and saw another 13 books to go through. At least I&#8217;ve read them all (or portions of them) already. I&#8217;ve dried up a lot of yellow highlighters too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got hundreds of News clippings and copies of Minnesota Historical records. I will have to be very single-minded to pull this together with all my notes and some yet-to-be interviews into a coherent book by the date of filing. I think Claudia was right to have me hold off on taking pre-orders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know my eight regular readers have been eager for a snippet of the book in progress. Sorry, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483"}],"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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}