{"id":29985,"date":"2018-05-27T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29985"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:56:16","slug":"longing-for-a-return-of-this-kind-of-collegiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29985","title":{"rendered":"Longing for a return of this kind of collegiality"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unveiling the Official President Bush Portrait\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GD3IodWyGME?start=1114&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I believe I have shared this video already, but I want you to look at it again.<\/p>\n<p>It speaks to a &#8220;kinder, gentler&#8221; time in Washington, D.C. A president of one political party welcomed back his immediate predecessor, a president of another party.<\/p>\n<p>They unveiled official White House portraits of President Bush and first lady Laura Bush. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spoke of the &#8220;seamless transition&#8221; from one administration to another. They spoke of warmth and hospitality, of cooperation and collegiality.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of mood is missing these days. I want it to return. Perhaps one day it will.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this video. It tells me that political opponents need not be enemies. That love of country transcends the partisan divide.<\/p>\n<p>Honest. It does.<\/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 believe I have shared this video already, but I want you to look at it again. It speaks to a &#8220;kinder, gentler&#8221; time in Washington, D.C. A president of one political party welcomed back his immediate predecessor, a president of another party. They unveiled official White House portraits of President Bush and first lady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longing for a return of this kind of collegiality<\/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],"tags":[540,5451,1899,5246],"class_list":["post-29985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-collegiality","tag-george-w-bush","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985","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=29985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29986,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29985\/revisions\/29986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}