{"id":631,"date":"2006-08-29T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:38:13","slug":"racing-to-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Racing to Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to\u00c2\u00a0tidy up my\u00c2\u00a0campaign before my wife and I leave on Labor Day for Denmark. I&#8217;ve got to press <strong>Minnesota Debate<\/strong> to allow me to join the debate with Oberstar and Grams. I&#8217;ve got to get my first serious fundraising letter sent out. I&#8217;ve got to finish my financial disclosure forms for the <strong>Clerk of the House of Representatives<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve got to clean up my website where I created way too many pages explaining who Harry Welty is. I&#8217;ve got to prepare for my meeting with Mel and Chris at which time I will hand over the reigns of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got to get ready for Denmark. We purchased a stay in a\u00c2\u00a0thatched roof, country home in the Jutland, Peninsula last\u00c2\u00a0year at a fundraiser for the Bong World War II Memorial in Superior, Wisconsin. Richard Bong was a Wisconsin\u00c2\u00a0flyer who earned the nickname &#8220;Ace of Aces&#8221; in WW II.<\/p>\n<p>The home was offered at the last minute by a couple in Duluth. I&#8217;ll be taking\u00c2\u00a0our laptop\u00c2\u00a0and a phone to keep in touch if necessary. When I return I&#8217;ll have the most important six weeks of the campaign left to get myself elected.\u00c2\u00a0Its an awkward time to leave a campaign but I decided before embarking on this that I wasn&#8217;t going to let campainging interfere with our home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to\u00c2\u00a0tidy up my\u00c2\u00a0campaign before my wife and I leave on Labor Day for Denmark. I&#8217;ve got to press Minnesota Debate to allow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}