{"id":25863,"date":"2017-11-03T22:03:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25863"},"modified":"2017-11-03T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:03:47","slug":"when-did-wh-visit-become-an-issue-for-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25863","title":{"rendered":"When did WH visit become an issue for champs?"},"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\/11\/astros-houston-social-media.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25864\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/astros-houston-social-media-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/astros-houston-social-media-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/astros-houston-social-media-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/astros-houston-social-media-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/astros-houston-social-media.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have long thought that when a sports team wins a national championship a White House visit at the invitation of the president was a done deal. No questions asked. Nothing to consider. Let&#8217;s just go and have fun!<\/p>\n<p>No longer &#8230; I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors won the National Basketball Association title this past season. They balked at attending a White House ceremony over disputes with Donald J. Trump and his criticism of on-field protests by pro football players. The president then disinvited the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have the Houston Astros, who&#8217;ve just won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Astros Manager A.J. Hinch says the team will decide later whether to attend a White House ceremony to commemorate their stirring victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Eh? When did this become a discussion point? Oh, I know. It became one about the time Trump became president and continued his campaign of divisiveness, anger and rancor.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s managed to alienate professional athletes because he throws his presidential weight around over issues that usually don&#8217;t concern presidents of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Now it appears the World Series champs are going to take their time to decide whether to accept a White House invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre.<\/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 have long thought that when a sports team wins a national championship a White House visit at the invitation of the president was a done deal. No questions asked. Nothing to consider. Let&#8217;s just go and have fun! No longer &#8230; I guess. The Golden State Warriors won the National Basketball Association title this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When did WH visit become an issue for champs?<\/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":[17],"tags":[1424,7386,5299],"class_list":["post-25863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-houston-astros","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863","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=25863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25865,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions\/25865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}