{"id":8474,"date":"2013-01-26T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2013-01-26T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:57:04","slug":"reading-vs-fund-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"Reading vs. fund raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of a fascinating chapter in the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Sea-Neal-Ascherson\/product-reviews\/0809015935\/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&#038;showViewpoints=1\">Black Sea<\/a>&#8221; which is explaining much to me about the sorry history of Poland-Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so pleased that I&#8217;m not in Congress and expected by my party handlers to spend five hours on the phone each day selling my soul to rich people begging them for 2014&#8217;s political donations. <\/p>\n<p>Because I get to read I get to grow my brain instead of see it atrophy like the brains of Congressmen.<\/p>\n<p>The author writes of one of his historical characters Adam Mickiewicz perhaps the most loved Polish poet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He never saw either Warsaw or Krakow, the two capital citys of historic Poland. It is as if Shakespeare had never visited Poland.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to say that the poet spent long hours visiting at the home of an admitted spy for Poland&#8217;s occupier, Russia: &#8220;It was still and age in which a fine fellow was a fine fellow, and his politics came second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God forbid that any of our Congressmen would do the same. It would cut into their time at the phone bank or intellectual growth. Since they have no idea what&#8217;s going on in the world thank goodness the Party gives them talking points so that their ignorance doesn&#8217;t become too apparent when voters ask them questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of a fascinating chapter in the book &#8220;Black Sea&#8221; which is explaining much to me about the sorry history of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,47,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474"}],"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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8477,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}