{"id":22105,"date":"2017-06-02T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22105"},"modified":"2017-06-02T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T23:22:34","slug":"comedian-reaps-what-she-has-sown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22105","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Comedian&#8217; reaps what she has sown"},"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\/2017\/05\/griffin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22044\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/griffin-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/griffin-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/griffin-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/griffin-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/griffin.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just watched a brief TV news video of &#8220;comedian&#8221; Kathy Griffin blubbering about the future of her career.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what her future holds in store, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if she needs a good bit of time to &#8220;rehabilitate&#8221; her image &#8212; or perhaps she could start over &#8212; from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin recently took part in a hideous video depicting her holding a &#8220;severed head&#8221; that supposedly belonged to Donald Trump.<br \/>\nThe outrage was immediate and forceful.<\/p>\n<p>It was just the kind of response that Griffin should have expected to receive from what she called &#8220;an artsy fartsy statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was nothing of the kind.<\/p>\n<p>I get that entertainers are entitled to their own political points of view, just like, oh, bloggers. However, when entertainers are as well-known as Kathy Griffin, then they risk the kind of blowback that has exploded all over her.<\/p>\n<p>Lest we forget: Kathy Griffin built her career on raunchy &#8220;humor.&#8221; She went too far. Now she is paying the price for stepping <em>way<\/em> beyond the bounds of good taste.<\/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 just watched a brief TV news video of &#8220;comedian&#8221; Kathy Griffin blubbering about the future of her career. I&#8217;m not sure what her future holds in store, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if she needs a good bit of time to &#8220;rehabilitate&#8221; her image &#8212; or perhaps she could start over &#8212; from scratch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Comedian&#8217; reaps what she has sown<\/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":[3,14],"tags":[1424,7121],"class_list":["post-22105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kathy-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105","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=22105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22109,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions\/22109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}