{"id":757,"date":"2006-10-04T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:20:47","slug":"one-sided-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"One Sided Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But last night it was Grams and Oberstar who didn&#8217;t get to my debate. I drove for two hours through a late October rainstorm south to Milaca where the Chamber of Commerce had scheduled a candidates forum. Oberstar and Grams were no shows but Jim at least had sent long winded answers to the three questions the Chamber had sent him in advance.<\/p>\n<p>I introduced myself by explaining that my funding was a couple decimal points short of Oberstar&#8217;s and that I had to do things myself. Then I held out my camera and took a picture of myself on the stage. It drew a couple chuckles. The flash didn&#8217;t go off but with a little futzing\u00c2\u00a0on the computer it\u00c2\u00a0turned into a reasonable facsimile of the candidate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/welty4congress.org\/BlogPics\/Milaca2_25.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I told the fifty or so folks that my name was Harry; that I&#8217;d been born in the most Republican state in the union, Kansas, smack dab in the middle the Democrat Harry Truman&#8217;s presidency. I explained that my parents had a lot of explaining to do. That drew another round of chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure the crowd was there for the Congressional candidates. Mercifully, I was first and got to leave immediately afterward for the long drive home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But last night it was Grams and Oberstar who didn&#8217;t get to my debate. I drove for two hours through a late October rainstorm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,47,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grams","category-harrys-diary","category-oberstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}