{"id":6806,"date":"2012-03-22T23:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2012-03-22T23:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:30:59","slug":"my-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6806","title":{"rendered":"My missed opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was elected a delegate to this Saturday&#8217;s DFL Senate District Convention. Unfortunately, I did not consult my calendar when Claudia asked me if I would help seat a number of disabled children who have been invited to watch the morning rehearsal of the Duluth Superior Symphony program. <\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m not an official candidate despite my hot air on the blog and my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.com\">website<\/a> its not all that critical that I show up. Word is getting out there. A friend told me a retired legislator asked if I was really running. After Tarryl Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6775\">recent email<\/a> I figure there is only one serious candidate for the DFL ticket &#8211; Rick Nolan. Too bad he sounds like a reprise of William Jennings Bryan. I wonder if he sings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was elected a delegate to this Saturday&#8217;s DFL Senate District Convention. Unfortunately, I did not consult my calendar when Claudia asked me if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806"}],"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=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}