{"id":17787,"date":"2016-11-03T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17787"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:20:01","slug":"world-series-dominates-the-news-thank-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17787","title":{"rendered":"World Series dominates the news &#8230; thank goodness!"},"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\/2016\/11\/World-Series-Chicago-Cubs-v-Cleveland-Indians-Game-Seven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17788\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/World-Series-Chicago-Cubs-v-Cleveland-Indians-Game-Seven-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"world-series-chicago-cubs-v-cleveland-indians-game-seven\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/World-Series-Chicago-Cubs-v-Cleveland-Indians-Game-Seven-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/World-Series-Chicago-Cubs-v-Cleveland-Indians-Game-Seven-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/World-Series-Chicago-Cubs-v-Cleveland-Indians-Game-Seven-1024x759.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I awoke this morning, turned on the TV, surfed the major networks&#8217; morning talk shows and discovered the following: <em>The Chicago Cubs won the World Series!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The election? That desultory exercise in democracy? The miserable contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump? It took a back seat to the <em>really big news<\/em> of the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful relief from the home stretch of this campaign!<\/p>\n<p>To be candid, I didn&#8217;t have a dog in the World Series fight. I didn&#8217;t particularly care which team won. I get that Cubs fans waited 108 years since their team&#8217;s last World Series win. The Cleveland Indians have their own futility streak; the Indians haven&#8217;t won since 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The joy in Chicago is overwhelming. Good for them!<\/p>\n<p>And good for the rest of us who have been given a slight &#8212; and all too brief &#8212; respite from the hideous campaign for the presidency.<\/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>I awoke this morning, turned on the TV, surfed the major networks&#8217; morning talk shows and discovered the following: The Chicago Cubs won the World Series! The election? That desultory exercise in democracy? The miserable contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump? It took a back seat to the really big news of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Series dominates the news &#8230; thank goodness!<\/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":[13,14,17],"tags":[945,1424,2139,5299],"class_list":["post-17787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-sports-news","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787","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=17787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17789,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions\/17789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}