{"id":31130,"date":"2018-07-20T01:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31130"},"modified":"2018-07-20T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T01:17:42","slug":"happy-to-make-this-guy-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31130","title":{"rendered":"Happy to make this guy laugh"},"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\/2018\/07\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31131\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should surprise no one that High Plains Blogger isn&#8217;t universally loved, admired, worshiped, glorified &#8230; whatever.<\/p>\n<p>It has its critics. I heard from one of them this week. He lives in Amarillo, Texas. He is a Trumpkin\/Trumpster\/Trump-o-file.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t like my continual barrage that this blog keeps leveling at the president of the United States, Donald John Trump Sr.. I once told him he was free to read others&#8217; blogs, that he wasn&#8217;t obligated to read High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that and said he reads High Plains Blogger for the &#8220;humor&#8221; it provides.<\/p>\n<p>Great! I am happy to put smiles on readers&#8217; faces. I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s grinning when he reads my spewage.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise, either: I have no intention of relenting on my criticism of the president. It goes with the territory. It goes with this blog&#8217;s territory &#8230; <em>and<\/em> &#8230; it goes with the president&#8217;s territory, too.<\/p>\n<p>Except that the 45th president of the United States doesn&#8217;t like reading criticism, not that he sees these blog posts. I doubt he does. I&#8217;m just a little ol&#8217; blogger out here in Flyover Country, far beyond the Beltway. Then again, maybe someone on his staff clips this stuff for him.<\/p>\n<p>I once pledged to write positive blog posts when the president deserves them. I have done so, although I admit the positive musings have been few compared to the <em>negativity<\/em> that comes from High Plains Blogger as it pertains to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should lay down the predicate here and now for all who read this blog. I cannot in good faith demand that you read this blog if you disagree with yours truly&#8217;s world view.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad that you do. I am glad that the fellow with whom I am vaguely acquainted does, too, even if it only makes him laugh.<\/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>It should surprise no one that High Plains Blogger isn&#8217;t universally loved, admired, worshiped, glorified &#8230; whatever. It has its critics. I heard from one of them this week. He lives in Amarillo, Texas. He is a Trumpkin\/Trumpster\/Trump-o-file. He doesn&#8217;t like my continual barrage that this blog keeps leveling at the president of the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy to make this guy laugh<\/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":[9,10,13,14],"tags":[1424,7168,2122],"class_list":["post-31130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-flyover-country","tag-high-plains-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130","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=31130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31132,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130\/revisions\/31132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}