{"id":718,"date":"2006-09-23T04:07:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2010-11-10T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:57:39","slug":"4am-drunks-woke-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"4AM &#8211; Drunks woke me up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Yes indeed,sometimes its a pain to live in a neighborhood swarming with college nightlife. At 1:30 AM I woke to the bellowing of a drunk young man screaming that &#8220;the Indians think they run this town.&#8221; It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like a very collegiate thing to say even for a drunk. After ten minutes I got up and looked out my front window. Five guys were milling around as though they were waiting for a bus. Every so often an expletive broke the air. I decided that this wasn&#8217;t a 911 emergency so I wasted time trying to look up a night desk. The number I called just gave me a long menu so I hung up and dialed 911. As I began describing the group to the dispatcher two of them began uprooting the bus stop sign in front of my house and one of them, the Indian hater I think, heaved it into the street. A black blazer pulled up and they all ran over to drive off with it before anyone could stop them.<\/p>\n<p>Guess who couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep?<\/p>\n<p>Half an hour later I crawled out of bed and\u00c2\u00a0began composing a special Daily thought for my exclusion from Debate Minnesota. Its 4AM now and before I crawled back into bed I decided to check my blog and website stats. The blogs was the highest its ever been. The welty4congress site was double its previous best. Cool.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 336px; height: 281px\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/stats\/StatsSept22.jpg\" width=\"336\" \/><br \/>\nSept 22 stats for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\">welty4congress.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/racingfriends.com\/cgi-bin\/tell.cgi\"><strong><font color=\"#b85b5a\" size=\"4\">Send lincolndemocrat to a friend<\/font><\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes indeed,sometimes its a pain to live in a neighborhood swarming with college nightlife. At 1:30 AM I woke to the bellowing of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}