{"id":3485,"date":"2015-08-27T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T06:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2015-08-27T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T06:27:49","slug":"my-people-among-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2015\/08\/27\/my-people-among-em\/","title":{"rendered":"My People Among &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the sun, on the stairs, smiling and squinting at the camera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kftcphotos\/20688593318\">there stood a crowd of people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kftc.org\/\">Kentuckians for the Commonwealth<\/a>. It\u2019s time for New Power!, the sign read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And wait. No wait. Look there, that\u2019s Katherine and behind her Julia and in the shark shirt and oversized hat, that\u2019s Jack, right? And wait. Look. Four or five shoulders away, there\u2019s their mom Jenny Bea and, yes, her mom VJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see now\u2026 Oh wait. Look! It\u2019s <em>my<\/em> mom. My ever-loving mother. She said she was going, and sure enough there she is. And way over there on the other side, behind some rowdy sunglasses, is that Jenny Evans? Wait. Did I say rowdy? No, he who stands at the back wears the rowdiest of glasses. I\u2019ve seen him behind a boat in those things. They make the thing go faster. My cousin Burt.<\/p>\n<p>A long distance from here but squinting under a familiar sun. There are some of my people standing there among that handsome looking crowd. They <a href=\"http:\/\/kftc.org\/chapters\">work together<\/a>. They work hard. They <a href=\"http:\/\/kftc.org\/current-issues\">do good<\/a>. And I know some of them fairly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sun, on the stairs, smiling and squinting at the camera, there stood a crowd of people. Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. It\u2019s time for New Power!, the sign read.\u00a0 And wait. No wait. Look there, that\u2019s Katherine and behind her Julia and in the shark shirt and oversized hat, that\u2019s Jack, right? And wait. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}