{"id":18928,"date":"2017-01-01T01:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2017-01-01T01:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:24:38","slug":"still-waiting-for-sign-of-hope-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18928","title":{"rendered":"Still waiting for sign of hope for Trump"},"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\/10\/donaldtrump_091516getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17616\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/donaldtrump_091516getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/donaldtrump_091516getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/donaldtrump_091516getty.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the men who have become president of the United States without my vote, I&#8217;ve always harbored hope that they would do the right thing for my country, that they would rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot reach that level of hope and optimism for the 45th president.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump takes office in 19 days. He&#8217;ll raise his hand on a holy book, swear to uphold the Constitution, defend the nation against its enemies and follow the laws of the land.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll be his solemn, sacred promise.<\/p>\n<p>So help me, I cannot yet make the leap that allows me to believe he&#8217;ll do all those things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve voted in 12 presidential elections. I have voted for five men won. Of the men who became president, I have relied on my optimistic nature and my belief in our political system to suspend my own misgivings about them.<\/p>\n<p>I am waiting for that moment to arrive as I watch Donald Trump tweet himself silly over this issue and that. I await that moment when I can actually believe he is giving serious and thoughtful consideration to the myriad issues that await him.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I hope for the best but as of this moment &#8212; on the eve of a new year &#8212; I fear for a lot less. I won&#8217;t fear for the absolute worst, because the worst is too frightening to ponder.<\/p>\n<p>Happy new year, y&#8217;all. Let&#8217;s all hang on together.<\/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>Of all the men who have become president of the United States without my vote, I&#8217;ve always harbored hope that they would do the right thing for my country, that they would rise to the occasion. Until now, that is. I cannot reach that level of hope and optimism for the 45th president. Donald J. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still waiting for sign of hope for Trump<\/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":[74,1424,6814,3369,3688,5043],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-inauguration","tag-oath-of-office","tag-potus","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","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=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18929,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/18929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}