{"id":53724,"date":"2023-12-29T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53724"},"modified":"2023-12-29T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T19:09:22","slug":"personal-update-december-29-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/29\/personal-update-december-29-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update December 29, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m a bit better – I have some remedies on order and in the meantime hve cobbled together as best I could a recipe given to me by a former medical missionary who used to used it against dysentery in Africa.\u00a0 It’s not (nor is it intended to be) a miracle cure, but it’s helping.\u00a0 At that I may be lucky.\u00a0 Heather Cox Richardson’s latest column is about Wounded Knee today.<\/a>\u00a0 Here’s one quote:<\/p>\n

A dozen years ago, I wrote a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, and what I learned still keeps me up at night. But it is not December 29 that haunts me.<\/p>\n

What haunts me is the night of December 28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is haunting.\u00a0 Those who most deserved to be haunted by it likely were impervious.\u00a0 Their descendants, and all Americans in Power, who are not impervious should be learning something from it (as some are and some aren’t.)\u00a0 Because<\/p>\n

One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability.<\/p>\n

But it is never too late to change the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday Maine did this in hope f changing the future (Lawrence interviewed the Maine Secretarty of State Las night on it)<\/p>\n

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Well, I’m a bit better – I have some remedies on order and in the meantime hve cobbled together as best I could a recipe given to me by a former medical missionary who used to used it against dysentery in Africa.\u00a0 It’s not (nor is it intended to be) a miracle cure, but it’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3924,3717,3866,3811],"class_list":["post-53724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gop-murder","tag-gop-violence","tag-history","tag-personal","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}