{"id":9426,"date":"2013-09-02T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2013-09-02T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:24:37","slug":"small-frustrations-of-blogging-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9426","title":{"rendered":"Small frustrations of blogging etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I began a post with the intention of placating Liam who wanted me to post a couple items on the blog and work on my nascent campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>I had typed four pleasing paragraphs when an errant finger strike cast them into the void and I was not sufficiently versed in recovery to save them. I was too discouraged to try to recall them and so went on to the website to make it presentable. As only 80  people had paid it a call over the previous month I wasn&#8217;t too concerned with it. However, I&#8217;d just sent out a few thousand fundraising letters with its URL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weltyforschoolboard.com\/\">www.weltyforschoolboard.com<\/a> front and center. That gave me plenty of incentive to make it presentable before an avalanche of new visitors. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the learning or relearning curve was too steep for a single day&#8217;s building of a website. I put in some semi-incindiary things confident that the whole enterprise had become unreachable. Oops! Today Liam informed me that he liked the pictures (one of his requests) that I had put on the site. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I have a dozen things that I wouldn&#8217;t mind blogging about but I&#8217;ve got a webpage to fix, a meeting with Liam and another potential volunteer and I had already spent an unplanned for hour cleaning out the dry goods in my kitchen cupboard. Some new and different critters had infiltrated half closed boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The blog will have to wait but among the topics I might eventually get round to are these. Being caught between a loyalty to two competing political families. My visit to the Gay Pride event. News stories about Education, <em>of all things<\/em>. Furthermore my hunt for interesting pictures for Liam put a packet of old snow sculpture photos in my hands. When I posted the earliest such photos on the old www.snowbizz.com website it was the antique and pokey dial-up era. I had to put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/SnowSculpting%20Page\/MySnow\/Mysnow88-00.htm\">postage stamp sized images<\/a> on my website or it would take an hour for them to upload on people&#8217;s computer screens. <\/p>\n<p>I think one of my first missions will be to post full-sized snow sculpture pics on the campaign website and explain how they reflect my long and unorthodox political career. That sounds a lot more fun than knocking on doors or filling out questionnaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I began a post with the intention of placating Liam who wanted me to post a couple items on the blog and work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"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=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}