{"id":5951,"date":"2012-02-11T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2012-02-11T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:12:19","slug":"a-pleasant-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"A pleasant break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its quite pleasant for me when I skip writing in the blog. I’ve been much more faithful at posting for the past couple months than I intended. I had planned to write my book hell bent for leather. Instead I’ve spent much more time than I’d anticipated organizing a couple more collections of materials – timelines, court docs and hand written notes. <\/p>\n

I’ll get to the book. I will. Just a little more tinkering. I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n

As for today. I went to the movie the Iron Giant<\/a> with my grandsons. That’s one of the pleasures of having young children or grandchildren – delving into their entertainments with no embarrassment. <\/p>\n

I had read the original book to my children when it came out in the 1980’s but the movie was made in 1999 when my kids were in high school so I missed it. The movie makes a few significant deviations from the book I remember but its a good flick. It was fine for my four year old Tan Man but it scared my two year old Jake-ee. His mother missed most of it waiting for us and the Tan Man and I kept the pop corn. <\/p>\n

I did spend a couple hours sorting the interview notes today but my most productive time was spent trying to describe some complicated history to my wife. She hates politics so it was a little like trying to sell her on pornography. Still, its good practice summarizing.<\/p>\n

Next week. That should be a good week for writing.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah. I’ve got to thank you all for keeping my threat to run for Congress from my wife. Its a secret that’s still between you and me. Don’t worry. When someone finally spills the beans I’ll just tell Claudia that I’m only using the threat to sell books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its quite pleasant for me when I skip writing in the blog. I’ve been much more faithful at posting for the past couple months…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951"}],"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=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}