{"id":3694,"date":"2013-10-11T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2013-10-11T13:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:29:48","slug":"this-guy-embodies-civic-mindedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"This guy embodies civic-mindedness"},"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>Mount Pleasant, S.C., resident Chris Cox is the living, breathing symbol of selfless service to others.<\/p>\n<p>The government shutdown has resulted in the furloughing of &#8220;non-essential&#8221; government employees, such as the maintenance crews that keep our national treasures dolled up for us tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Chris Cox.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RCF3bMVCRG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitsnews.com\/2013\/10\/10\/chris-cox-superstar\/\">Chris Cox, Superstar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Chris Cox, Superstar&#8221; &#8212; FITSNews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitsnews.com\/2013\/10\/10\/chris-cox-superstar\/embed\/#?secret=iYJMKhBl7V#?secret=RCF3bMVCRG\" data-secret=\"RCF3bMVCRG\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been mowing the lawn in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the past several days while our so-called &#8220;leaders&#8221; are arguing over whether to reopen the government and extend the debt ceiling to enable the nation to keep paying its bills.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to do either of these things will create significant havoc in people&#8217;s lives. Economists say defaulting on our national debt obligations could be near-cataclysmic.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Cox isn&#8217;t your run-of-the-mill do-gooder. He&#8217;s a bit rough around the edges. He reportedly has a colorful past. He might not be able to keep cutting the grass while the feds keep much of the government on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>You have to admire someone who wants to this kind of a statement. Many of the rest of us just sit around and gripe about Congress, the president and others at or near the top of the federal government chain of command. <\/p>\n<p>This fellow took matters into his own hands.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just something uplifting about this story.<\/p>\n<p>Get yourself cleaned up, Mr. Cox, and run for public office.<\/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>Mount Pleasant, S.C., resident Chris Cox is the living, breathing symbol of selfless service to others. The government shutdown has resulted in the furloughing of &#8220;non-essential&#8221; government employees, such as the maintenance crews that keep our national treasures dolled up for us tourists. Enter Chris Cox. Chris Cox, Superstar He&#8217;s been mowing the lawn in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This guy embodies civic-mindedness<\/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":[1],"tags":[1301,1978,2797],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-government-shutdown","tag-lincoln-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}