{"id":6426,"date":"2012-03-03T03:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2012-03-03T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:29:14","slug":"the-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6426","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One last quick post before bed II.<\/p>\n<p>As I was building the sculpture I couldn&#8217;t help but warble what I could recall of the signature song from the M<em>an of LaMancha<\/em>, The Impossible Dream.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been working on Don Quixote I&#8217;ve thought of one delightful coincidence that it would be fun to engineer. My hero Abe Lincoln was elected to a single term in Congress. It was a miserable year for him. He opposed a popular war and his partisans back home in Illinois were none to thrilled with him from bucking popular sentiment. He was a newbie in Congress with no clout and he was away from his family too much. <\/p>\n<p>Geez it would be fun to match Abe in the single term department. Should I get elected over the likes of the DFL candidates according to my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4472\">fantasy campaign<\/a> and then run as a Republican in the next election I could almost guarantee that I would be a one term congressman. Still, there would be so many things I&#8217;d love to do while a congressman in D.C. that I think could make a difference to the national psyche.  Hell we could use a snow sculptor in Congress. At least I know what do with snow which is our elected leaders favorite pastime &#8211; snowing their constituents. <\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;d write a tell all book about that too. I&#8217;ve got a title in mind already. I&#8217;ll post it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: Here&#8217;s the Impossible Dream. I&#8217;ve got a good mind (or a bad one) to post my own version of it. Frankly Richard Harris who got paid to sing it is no great shakes in the vocalizing department.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RfHnzYEHAow?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RfHnzYEHAow?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last quick post before bed II. As I was building the sculpture I couldn&#8217;t help but warble what I could recall of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,100,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426"}],"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=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}