{"id":9144,"date":"2013-08-03T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2013-08-03T12:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:39:27","slug":"books-and-putting-off-electioneering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9144","title":{"rendered":"Books and putting off electioneering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told my volunteer that I&#8217;m recovering from a week of mad work for my family. I&#8217;ve got a pile of tasks to attend to that have been shoved aside. I need a couple days to collect my thoughts and start campaigning again. I also need to keep from getting too nearsighted. To that end I&#8217;d like to report finishing Warmth of Other Suns a few days ago. My wife after hearing me read all its 540 plus pages recommended it to her book club. I&#8217;m about to add it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/myreadinglist.htm\">my reading list<\/a> page on the old Snowbizz site.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I bought two more books that jumped out at me when I was getting a campaign cell phone from my volunteer. The first is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eva-Braun-Heike-B-Gortemaker\/dp\/030759582X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1375551164&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=eva+braun+life+with+hitler\">Eva Braun, Life with Hitler<\/a>. Its about the fourth book on Adolph I&#8217;ve read. He&#8217;s sort of the dark shadow to me of Abraham Lincoln and I&#8217;ve wanted to make sense of him and his worshipers ever since I was a grade school kid pondering the life of Anne Frank. Good old Christian dualism &#8211; good and evil. It can&#8217;t be that simple.<\/p>\n<p>The other book is about the Assassination of poor old James Garfield, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President\/dp\/0307939650\">Destiny of the Republic<\/a>.&#8221; It fits in well with all those other books I&#8217;ve acquired and read of ex-American Presidents and their times. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign won&#8217;t be set aside for too long. I&#8217;m preparing to start up my latest campaign website. That should only take a couple of days and then eternal work until the November election, providing I survive September&#8217;s primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told my volunteer that I&#8217;m recovering from a week of mad work for my family. I&#8217;ve got a pile of tasks to attend&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144"}],"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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}