{"id":22990,"date":"2017-07-10T00:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22990"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:07:58","slug":"no-longer-missing-the-sniping-from-left-and-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22990","title":{"rendered":"No longer missing the sniping from left and right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I once posted a blog item about two fellows with whom I had a sort of professional relationship.<\/p>\n

One is an ultraconservative firebrand; the other is an ultraliberal firebrand. I offered the notion that I must be doing something right to have angered both of them for essentially the same reason: I tilt too far the other<\/em> way.<\/p>\n

Here is what I wrote in July 2010.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2010\/07\/barbs-from-the-left-and-the-right\/<\/p>\n

I was working full time at the Amarillo Globe-News then, as editor of the Opinion pages. I would leave that job about two years later. I’m still blogging my brains out.<\/p>\n

What I find refreshing about blogging in this context — as a retired former journalist — is that I no longer have to argue with critics who say I tilt too far in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

I tell people now — and I’ll reiterate it here — that I am now free to speak without apology. It’s not that I ever apologized for what I wrote when I was a working print editorialist. It’s just that I felt the need to correct whatever misinterpretation a critic would level at me.<\/p>\n

“Your paper is too liberal,” they might say. “That rag of yours is too conservative,” others might say. No one can say that about this blog.<\/p>\n

As the sayings go: “It is what it is,” and “What you see is what you get.”<\/p>\n

As time marches on since my departure from daily print journalism I find myself separating myself more easily from the regular occurrences that would develop, such as the one noted in that July 2010 blog post.<\/p>\n

I love telling friends with whom I cross paths that these days I am: unfettered, unchained, unrestrained, unleashed, uncaged, untethered, unrestricted<\/em> … you can put the prefix “un” in front of any descriptive term you want.<\/p>\n

That’s me. I’m having a blast, man.<\/p>\n\n

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I once posted a blog item about two fellows with whom I had a sort of professional relationship. One is an ultraconservative firebrand; the other is an ultraliberal firebrand. I offered the notion that I must be doing something right to have angered both of them for essentially the same reason: I tilt too far … Continue reading No longer missing the sniping from left and right<\/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":[179,670],"class_list":["post-22990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-agn-media","tag-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990","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=22990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22992,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990\/revisions\/22992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}