{"id":11886,"date":"2015-12-05T00:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2015-12-05T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:54:17","slug":"merry-christmas-and-lock-n-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11886","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas &#8230; and lock &#8216;n load!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dvydb58athsqyakzf2g8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11887\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dvydb58athsqyakzf2g8-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"dvydb58athsqyakzf2g8\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dvydb58athsqyakzf2g8-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dvydb58athsqyakzf2g8.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may believe this if you wish, or\u00a0you may disbelieve it.\u00a0Doesn&#8217;t matter much to me.<\/p>\n<p>But, optics matter.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this picture of a Nevada state legislator who had her picture taken with her family &#8230; all of whom are armed to the teeth with guns.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, a Republican, thought it would be nice to show her support for the Second Amendment by putting this image on <em>Christmas cards<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Honest to goodness, I really don&#8217;t have much to add to this, except to invite you to look at the picture and decide whether you believe this is in keeping with the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/michele-fiore-gun-christmas-card\">Would Jesus be packing?<\/a>\u00a0If they had these kinds of weapons 2,000-plus years ago, my strong hunch is that the Lord himself &#8212; the Prince of Peace &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t be seen with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, I&#8217;m just speculating.<\/p>\n<p>As a friend of mine back in Beaumont was fond of saying: &#8220;My three-word answer is &#8230; <em>W. O. W.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may believe this if you wish, or\u00a0you may disbelieve it.\u00a0Doesn&#8217;t matter much to me. But, optics matter. I saw this picture of a Nevada state legislator who had her picture taken with her family &#8230; all of whom are armed to the teeth with guns. Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, a Republican, thought it would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas &#8230; and lock &#8216;n load!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[978,2459,5713,4169],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-christmas","tag-jesus-christ","tag-prince-of-peace","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11888,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions\/11888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}