{"id":686,"date":"2006-09-17T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T03:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:48:10","slug":"mainlining-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Mainlining the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had\u00c2\u00a0been a week since I had last heard an English language news broadcast or read the news. When I cast around the Billund, Denmark Airport to spend my last 27 Danish Kroners I found a Financial Times. I devoured it over the next couple hours.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about the Pope&#8217;s artless speech which hard core militants would have been delighted to march and protest over and the good Republican Senators who are challenging Bush on his love for waterboarding.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0There were a raft of great articles about the murder of the leading Russian banker and the building boom in New York and a detailed two page story about the background of the next man likely to be Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister. The world arround me is reawakening. Unfortunately I&#8217;m about to crash. I&#8217;m back in Duluth but in Danish time its 3:30 AM. I&#8217;ll post some Danish pictures tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had\u00c2\u00a0been a week since I had last heard an English language news broadcast or read the news. When I cast around the Billund,&#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\/686"}],"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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}