{"id":34576,"date":"2019-01-01T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34576"},"modified":"2019-01-01T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:29:16","slug":"happy-new-year-in-all-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34576","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year, in all CAPS!"},"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=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #14171a; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.27px; line-height: 32px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;\">HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That, right there, is Donald Trump&#8217;s new year&#8217;s message to the country he was elected to govern.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things strike me about the tweet that came off the president&#8217;s cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>One is the use of all capital letters, which a tweet sender usually employees to express excitement, agitation or angst. Yet he tells us to &#8220;CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing is the apparent attempt at sounding magnanimous.<\/p>\n<p>Trump offers new year&#8217;s greetings to the &#8220;HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know he intends to aim that message at others, such as his critics and those who work for various media organizations. When I think just a little bit about it, though, I cannot get over the notion that the president himself is a &#8220;hater&#8221; and is the nation&#8217;s supreme purveyor of &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. Happy new year to the president. I am betting that 2019 is going to ruffle a few more feathers.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;GREAT THINGS&#8221; happening, I must say that the greatest thing I can imagine for our great country will occur when Donald John Trump exits the Oval Office for the final time.<\/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>HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY! That, right there, is Donald Trump&#8217;s new year&#8217;s message to the country he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy new year, in all CAPS!<\/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":[1424,6712,6808,3466],"class_list":["post-34576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-happy-new-year","tag-oval-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34576","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=34576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34577,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34576\/revisions\/34577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}