{"id":33289,"date":"2018-11-06T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33289"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:52:30","slug":"clear-your-throat-but-first-be-sure-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33289","title":{"rendered":"Clear your throat, but first &#8230; be sure to vote!"},"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><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pollingplace-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33133\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pollingplace-1024x768-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pollingplace-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pollingplace-1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pollingplace-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">You\u2019ve heard it said, \u201cDon\u2019t bitch if you don\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">I\u2019m going to keep bitching because I am going to vote later today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">My polling place is 8 minutes away by car. It\u2019s at a school in Collin County. Will there be a long line? I don\u2019t know. Nor does it matter. I\u2019ve got time on my hands. I have nowhere to go today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">My post-election griping might take a little different turn. To be candid, I am getting a little weary of speaking so critically about Donald John Trump. I am running out of ways to say the same thing, which is that Trump is <em>not fit to be president.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">But \u2026 he <em>is<\/em> the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">I want to concentrate more on issues that concern me. The world is in a perilous place because of climate change, the war on terror, the fight over nationalism vs. globalism, nuclear proliferation \u2026 those kinds of things. I won\u2019t abandon completely my criticism of the president, but I want desperately to take this blog into another direction as we head into the second half of Donald Trump\u2019s term as president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">My vote later today will give me license to speak out and to criticize the president of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">How about you?<\/span><\/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>You\u2019ve heard it said, \u201cDon\u2019t bitch if you don\u2019t vote.\u201d I\u2019m going to keep bitching because I am going to vote later today. My polling place is 8 minutes away by car. It\u2019s at a school in Collin County. Will there be a long line? I don\u2019t know. Nor does it matter. I\u2019ve got time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clear your throat, but first &#8230; be sure to vote!<\/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],"tags":[1027,1063,1424,1547,5177],"class_list":["post-33289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-climate-change","tag-collin-county","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-day","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289","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=33289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33290,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289\/revisions\/33290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}