{"id":7011,"date":"2012-04-28T02:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2012-04-28T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T07:19:11","slug":"stuck-in-the-fox-alternate-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in the Fox Alternate Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m between Day 2 and Day 3 in Florida. That means I&#8217;m getting a near lethal dose of Fox News. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hiding out in my Father-in-law&#8217;s kitchen hoping I don&#8217;t wake anyone up. Its 3AM. I did this last night too only then I was editing my book. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve hitched onto some neighbor&#8217;s weak wifi to catch up with news from abroad and my favorite website. I&#8217;d rather be asleep but that treat is a little illusive at the moment. The weather is glorious and Florida offers me a wonderful escape from the massive construction project that has overtaken my Duluth residence. We&#8217;re having our front steps and porch rebricked and the entire house tuckpointed. <\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2562\">tuckpointed<\/a> the entire house myself 13 years ago &#8211; and used the wrong mortar. If the World Wide Web had existed then I&#8217;d have known better. <\/p>\n<p>I got started when a fly by night mason &#8211; or pseudo-mason knocked on my door. I finished what he started and am lucky that all my bricks didn&#8217;t fall off afterward. It was my own personal Johnson Controls like swindle and the current work on my home is the piper I&#8217;m having to pay for it. <\/p>\n<p>I got a call from the masons today. They blew a fuse grinding my old mortar out and because I locked the door when I left town I had to call my son to let them in to restore their power. They are finally getting some good weather and every bit of mortar they remove before I return will spare me from time listening to the whine of their grinders. Its a sound that is almost as jarring as listening to Fox News. At least its constructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m between Day 2 and Day 3 in Florida. That means I&#8217;m getting a near lethal dose of Fox News. I&#8217;m hiding out in&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011"}],"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=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}