{"id":40478,"date":"2019-12-25T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40478"},"modified":"2019-12-25T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:36:08","slug":"merry-christmas-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40478","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Christmas%20%23Pelosi%20%23MaraLago&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/don-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40407\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/don-trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/don-trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/don-trump.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had thought about going easy today on Donald J. Trump, given that it&#8217;s Christmas and all of that. I am having fun today with my family gathered around. We&#8217;re set to have a lot of laughs and good cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president opened his mouth about Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, impeachment and how much his foes hate him. He said that after he spoke from Mar-a-Lago, Fla., to troops stationed overseas, in harm&#8217;s way, fighting to protect us against the evil forces that threaten us and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I won&#8217;t wade too deeply into the weeds with this post. I&#8217;ll continue to go <em>easier<\/em> on Donald Trump than I otherwise might be inclined to do.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish the president could set all that partisan bickering nonsense aside for a day. He can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>I realize I have allowed myself to get sucked into that nastiness sausage grinder on occasion, even during holy holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a joyful day. I intend to keep a smile on my face all day. I might even keep smiling when the sun comes up in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everyone \u2026 and to you as well, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Christmas%20%23Pelosi%20%23MaraLago&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had thought about going easy today on Donald J. Trump, given that it&#8217;s Christmas and all of that. I am having fun today with my family gathered around. We&#8217;re set to have a lot of laughs and good cheer. Then the president opened his mouth about Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, impeachment and how much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas, Mr. President<\/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":[978,1424,2253,7012],"class_list":["post-40478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-christmas","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-mar-a-lago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40478","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=40478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40479,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40478\/revisions\/40479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}