This is an apology to Mel who was puzzled by my inclusion of two “You Tube” videos on the blog. Mel’s dial-up connection hasn’t got the horsepower for videos without a deadly long wait. Since half the Internet connections of this district’s voters are dial-ups a lot of my potential visitors could be put out. I’ll have to warn them when I link to videos.<\/p>\n
Mel is new to my blog and started reading it in the last couple of weeks when I didn’t have time for the miscellaneous “Hoots” I’d been sticking on the blog earlier. I’ve\u00c2\u00a0assumed that regular visitors would be interested in a little variety and not just my fevered rants and ruminations. Some of the things I run across are gems even if they have nothing to do with politics. I’ll include them if I\u00c2\u00a0figure they might lift an eyebrow or coax a guffaw out of a visitor. That improbable video of the police officer investigating the DUI suspect got a laugh out of me. If nothing else the things I stick on the blog\u00c2\u00a0give evidence about the kind of person I am – deadly serious one minute but\u00c2\u00a0eyes twinkling the next.<\/p>\n
If you don’t have the bandwidth to watch a video then skip them but as for me, I like to lighten things up after a morning taking in grim news. I plan on living to be one hundred and I’ve always agreed with Reader’s Digest that laughter is the best medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an apology to Mel who was puzzled by my inclusion of two “You Tube” videos on the blog. Mel’s dial-up connection hasn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/564"}],"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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}