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I am going to join some of my fellow social media pals and refrain from talking politics today.<\/p>\n

There. That’s the extent of my mention of the p-word.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’m going to concentrate my energy on other matters.<\/p>\n

I might watch a football game<\/strong> or two … but don’t hold me to that.<\/p>\n

Dinner awaits<\/strong>. It won’t be a huge affair for my wife, son and me. It’s just the three of us, so we have decided to go easy on ourselves.<\/p>\n

I’m going to scroll through the Internet<\/strong> throughout the day to catch up on the news. I won’t mention any of it here today. Tomorrow is another day.<\/p>\n

I might even brush up on social media-speak<\/strong>. For example, I don’t yet know how to use the word “meme” properly. I’ll take a minute to look it up. My trusty American Heritage desk dictionary likely doesn’t even have it listed. I guess I’ll go online to find the meaning of the word. Wish me luck there.<\/p>\n

I believe, though, I’ll spend the bulk of my day giving thanks quietly.<\/p>\n

Thanks go to the fact that we live in such a wonderful and, yes, a great<\/em> nation. I always give thanks to my family, who I cherish more than life itself. I am thankful for the good health I continue to enjoy.<\/p>\n

I will give thanks, finally, for the opportunity I am granting myself to forgo commenting on the many things that have caused me great anxiety over the past few months. (See? I didn’t mention the p-word.)<\/p>\n

That, too, can wait for another day.<\/p>\n

Until then, let’s all enjoy this uniquely American holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n\n

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I am going to join some of my fellow social media pals and refrain from talking politics today. There. That’s the extent of my mention of the p-word. Instead, I’m going to concentrate my energy on other matters. I might watch a football game or two … but don’t hold me to that. Dinner awaits. … Continue reading Taking a one-day break from politics and public policy<\/span> →<\/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":[10],"tags":[2293,3655,6689,4300],"class_list":["post-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-public-policy","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","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=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18148,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}