{"id":41826,"date":"2020-03-22T18:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41826"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:35:38","slug":"politics-invading-serious-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41826","title":{"rendered":"Politics invading serious discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=impeachment%20%23coronavirus%20%23pandemic%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/closures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41741\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/closures-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/closures-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/closures-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/closures.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook meme popped up on my news feed that deserves a quick rebuke.<\/p>\n<p>It wonders how much money that the government spent on impeaching Donald Trump could be spent fighting the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whoa!<\/em> Let&#8217;s hold on here!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I will criticize the president&#8217;s reaction to the pandemic. I will question whether he has the smarts or the empathy or the understanding to lead us in this fight. I will not re-litigate the impeachment or drag that issue into this current matter.<\/p>\n<p>I now want to implore those who seem to support Donald John Trump to avoid the temptation to dredge up that miserable chapter in our recent political history.<\/p>\n<p>We are being swallowed up by this coronavirus issue. It&#8217;s enough to cause plenty of worry and anxiety all by itself.<\/p>\n<p>How about keeping our eye on the enemy that stands directly in front of us \u2026 right now?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=impeachment%20%23coronavirus%20%23pandemic%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook meme popped up on my news feed that deserves a quick rebuke. It wonders how much money that the government spent on impeaching Donald Trump could be spent fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Whoa! Let&#8217;s hold on here! Yes, I will criticize the president&#8217;s reaction to the pandemic. I will question whether he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics invading serious discussion<\/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":[9236,2253,9261],"class_list":["post-41826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-impeachment","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41826","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=41826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41826\/revisions\/41827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}