{"id":34351,"date":"2018-12-21T03:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T03:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34351"},"modified":"2018-12-21T03:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T03:38:24","slug":"blogging-requires-multi-tasking-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34351","title":{"rendered":"Blogging requires multi-tasking skills"},"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\/12\/blogging-e1484908296381-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34209\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blogging-e1484908296381-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blogging-e1484908296381-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/blogging-e1484908296381-1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time &#8212; more than likely &#8212; since I started blogging full time I am left with too much to comment on.<\/p>\n<p>Just today alone, the news exploded all over the place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. House of Reps decided to put $5 billion to build a wall along our southern border into a stopgap funding bill, then got assurances from Donald Trump he wouldn&#8217;t sign the Senate version of a bill that would keep the government running.<\/li>\n<li>The government is about to shut down partially.<\/li>\n<li>Then to top it off, Defense Secretary James Mattis quit and told the president off in his letter of resignation. Man, he blistered the commander in chief&#8217;s rear end. He delivered the letter in person at the White House. And get this: He signed his letter <em>without<\/em> salutation; there was no &#8220;sincerely,&#8221; or &#8220;with great respect&#8221; or &#8220;God bless you, sir&#8221; at the end of Mattis&#8217;s resignation letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been focused this afternoon on the Mattis matter, as I consider it to be most critical at this moment. I believe his resignation and his reasons for quitting constitute a national security crisis . . . as if Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t have enough crises to keep him, um, occupied.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I now need to figure out what I can write about in the moment and what I can set aside for another day. This reminds me of the situation I faced as an opinion page editor after 9\/11. We had more to write about than space would allow, meaning we had to decide which topics we could postpone for another time. It&#8217;s an editorial writer&#8217;s and editor&#8217;s ideal situation.<\/p>\n<p>This blogger now has the same dream.<\/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>For the first time &#8212; more than likely &#8212; since I started blogging full time I am left with too much to comment on. Just today alone, the news exploded all over the place. The U.S. House of Reps decided to put $5 billion to build a wall along our southern border into a stopgap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging requires multi-tasking skills<\/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":[10],"tags":[670,7074,1424,1978,2122,6705],"class_list":["post-34351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-blogging","tag-build-the-wall","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-shutdown","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-james-mattis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351","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=34351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34352,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions\/34352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}