{"id":21210,"date":"2017-04-23T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2017-04-23T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T16:18:24","slug":"hoping-to-head-off-trump-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21210","title":{"rendered":"Hoping to head off Trump Fatigue"},"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>I might need an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>News junkie that I am, I usually cannot resist watching cable and broadcast news channels&#8217; discussion of current events, of public policy and, yes, even politics.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>I awoke this Sunday morning and decided to avoid the weekly news\/commentary\/analysis talk shows. I didn&#8217;t watch George or Chuck on ABC or NBC, respectively. I had no particular desire to listen to the talking heads on &#8220;This Week&#8221; or &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? I fear it&#8217;s because of the subject matter: Donald John &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump, the current president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>The guy is starting to wear me out. We&#8217;re not even at the 100-day mark in his presidency. Good grief! That means we have another nearly four years to go before the next presidential election!<\/p>\n<p>Heaven help us. Or maybe\u00a0just me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t intend to stop commenting on this clown&#8217;s tenure as president; I consider contributions to High Plains Blogger to be\u00a0a form of therapy. I might even be able to fend off the Trump Fatigue I fear is beginning to overtake me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just need a day or two &#8212;\u00a0or maybe three or four &#8212;\u00a0away from the TV set.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck. I&#8217;ll extend the same to you.<\/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 might need an intervention. News junkie that I am, I usually cannot resist watching cable and broadcast news channels&#8217; discussion of current events, of public policy and, yes, even politics. Until now. I awoke this Sunday morning and decided to avoid the weekly news\/commentary\/analysis talk shows. I didn&#8217;t watch George or Chuck on ABC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping to head off Trump Fatigue<\/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":[10,13,14],"tags":[796,986,1424,1897,2991,3688],"class_list":["post-21210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cable-news","tag-chuck-todd","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-meet-the-press","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210","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=21210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21212,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}