{"id":34304,"date":"2018-12-19T01:53:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T01:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2018-12-19T01:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T01:53:03","slug":"rep-elect-crenshaw-showing-serious-class-and-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34304","title":{"rendered":"Rep.-elect Crenshaw showing serious class and dignity"},"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>I want to concur with a friend of mine who said over social media that he is beginning to like Dan Crenshaw more each day.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas U.S. representative-elect has reached out to &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Pete Davidson after hearing about the mysterious Instagram post that suggested Davidson might be contemplating suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, you will recall, mocked Crenshaw on an &#8220;SNL&#8221; segment, poking fun at the former Navy SEAL&#8217;s war wound; Crenshaw lost one of his eyes in Afghanistan when he was hit with an explosive device. Crenshaw showed up on an &#8220;SNL&#8221; segment to poke fun at Davidson. Crenshaw, a Republican, demonstrated a wonderful sense of humor in response to Davidson&#8217;s mocking of him.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see yet another side of Crenshaw. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/congressman-dan-crenshaw-called-pete-davidson-after-snl-stars-troubling-instagram-post\">According to Fox News<\/a>: <em>&#8220;I talked to him personally (Sunday),&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t go back very far. We&#8217;re not good friends. But I think he appreciated hearing from me. I told him everyone had a purpose in this world. God put you here for a reason. It&#8217;s your job to find that purpose. And you should live that way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I, too, hope that young Pete Davidson finds his way out of whatever dark place he&#8217;s in at the moment. Some heartfelt words of encouragement from a newly elected member of Congress certainly can provide help.<\/p>\n<p>I join Rep.-elect Crenshaw in pulling for Pete Davidson&#8217;s sound emotional health.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am liking Dan Crenshaw more as well.<\/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 want to concur with a friend of mine who said over social media that he is beginning to like Dan Crenshaw more each day. The Texas U.S. representative-elect has reached out to &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Pete Davidson after hearing about the mysterious Instagram post that suggested Davidson might be contemplating suicide. Davidson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep.-elect Crenshaw showing serious class and dignity<\/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":[3],"tags":[3226,8225,8224,4294],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-navy-seals","tag-pete-crenshaw","tag-pete-davidson","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","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=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34305,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/34305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}