{"id":17906,"date":"2016-11-11T03:32:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17906"},"modified":"2016-11-11T03:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T03:32:21","slug":"mounting-a-different-kind-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17906","title":{"rendered":"Mounting a different kind of &#8216;protest&#8217;"},"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\/0602-2016-TrumpProtestSJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17907\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0602-2016-TrumpProtestSJ-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"0602-2016-trumpprotestsj\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0602-2016-TrumpProtestSJ-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0602-2016-TrumpProtestSJ.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to head to any big city and march in the streets to protest Donald J. Trump&#8217;s election as president.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to mount my own form of protest another way. Bear with me on this one.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot quite get myself to identify the president-elect by name. Understand? I cannot yet position the word &#8220;president-elect&#8221; in front of Donald Trump&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll refer to the president-elect properly as the need arises. I just cannot &#8212; at least not yet &#8212; go all the way.<\/p>\n<p>On the 20th day of January, Donald Trump will take the oath of office. He&#8217;ll become the 45th president of the United States. He will assume the enormous responsibility the office bestows on the individual who occupies it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not yet ready to use the term &#8220;President&#8221; and &#8220;Trump&#8221; as a singular reference. Perhaps I&#8217;ll get there. Then again, perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I intend to protest Donald Trump&#8217;s election for the immediate future. I cannot promise how long I&#8217;ll continue this protest.<\/p>\n<p>At least for now. I&#8217;ll need some additional time to work through my disappointment in the election result. Others of you will understand what I&#8217;m feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, so will those who seethed at the election of Barack H. Obama. I&#8217;m still hearing a lot of those folks using some mighty disrespectful language when referring to the current president.<\/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&#8217;m not going to head to any big city and march in the streets to protest Donald J. Trump&#8217;s election as president. No, that&#8217;s not for me. I&#8217;m going to mount my own form of protest another way. Bear with me on this one. I cannot quite get myself to identify the president-elect by name. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mounting a different kind of &#8216;protest&#8217;<\/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],"tags":[540,1424,6664,6665],"class_list":["post-17906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump-protests","tag-us-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906","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=17906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17908,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906\/revisions\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}