{"id":9394,"date":"2022-11-09T05:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2022-11-09T00:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:16:33","slug":"wed-nov-9-2022-not-sure-if-we-still-have-a-republic-too-worn-out-to-watch-the-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/11\/09\/wed-nov-9-2022-not-sure-if-we-still-have-a-republic-too-worn-out-to-watch-the-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Nov. 9, 2022 &#8211; not sure if we still have a Republic, too worn out to watch the returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp.\u00a0 Later warm and damp.\u00a0 Then cool and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a swamp here after all.\u00a0 And I soaked through my shirt yesterday without even trying.<\/p>\n<p>Did my pickups.\u00a0\u00a0 Just a few things, some for resale at my local Hamfest, which is on the calendar!\u00a0 Hooray.\u00a0 Some of the items were for the BOL, and some were just in case.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got two pickups today.\u00a0 Thought I&#8217;d have three, but one of my tried and true auctioneers got good prices for his stuff this week.\u00a0\u00a0 Good for him, not good for me.\u00a0 I was sure I&#8217;d be picking up at his place.\u00a0 Prices are up everywhere, even the secondary market.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to order the clips I need to put more shelves together at my storage unit, and have them overnighted, for no extra cost.\u00a0 In fact they were a tenth of what Grainger had them for locally, and I&#8217;d have had to wait three days for the inter-store transfer.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know how a company can stay in business at that rate, but I&#8217;ll save the money when I can.<\/p>\n<p>I voted, and hope you all did too.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know if it matters, but I want to be able to say that we tried everything, before the red tide washes away the corruption.\u00a0\u00a0 If it gets bad enough, there will be a red tide.<\/p>\n<p>What follows that won&#8217;t be pretty.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope it can be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>And if not, that my preps are adequate.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stack some more.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool and damp.\u00a0 Later warm and damp.\u00a0 Then cool and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a swamp here after all.\u00a0 And I soaked through my shirt yesterday without even trying.<\/p>\n<p>Did my pickups.\u00a0\u00a0 Just a few things, some for resale at my local Hamfest, which is on the calendar!\u00a0 Hooray.\u00a0 Some of the items were for the BOL, and some were just in case.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got two pickups today.\u00a0 Thought I&#8217;d have three, but one of my tried and true auctioneers got good prices for his stuff this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/11\/09\/wed-nov-9-2022-not-sure-if-we-still-have-a-republic-too-worn-out-to-watch-the-returns\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Nov. 9, 2022 &#8211; not sure if we still have a Republic, too worn out to watch the returns &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}