{"id":18925,"date":"2016-12-31T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18925"},"modified":"2016-12-31T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:32:32","slug":"the-world-is-ones-oyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18925","title":{"rendered":"The world is one’s oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Readers of this blog occasionally offer an interesting observation about its content.<\/p>\n

“Aren’t you glad you get to offer your perspective in a community that disagrees with what you think?” That comment comes from those who generally agree with I write. Those who disagree aren’t likely to express such a thing so politely; they’ll just take me down.<\/p>\n

Why is that so, um, interesting? It’s because my “community” now involves regions far from the Texas Panhandle, where I worked in daily print journalism for nearly 18 years.<\/p>\n

You see, the world is now the stage — and Planet Earth is the audience for the spewage that flows from this venue. An analytic graphic on Word Press tells me I have been read by folks in nearly 90 countries in 2016; we start over in just a few hours.<\/p>\n

Sure, the Panhandle comprises residents who abide by a different set of values espoused by yours truly. It’s not that they’re wrong and I am right … necessarily! It’s that we — most of the rest of the Panhandle and I — have different world views.<\/p>\n

I tend to favor Democrats seeking public office; most of my neighbors and friends here favor Republicans. To each their own, yes? Of course!<\/p>\n

So, as I’ve become a full-time blogger — one who is able to speak freely now rather than writing for The Man — I have learned how to accept the reality that the audience for this blog extends far beyond confines of this part of the world.<\/p>\n

It took me a little while to achieve that acceptance.<\/p>\n

But I have. It’s a big world out there and I am so glad to be able to share my views with it.<\/p>\n\n

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