{"id":43459,"date":"2020-07-05T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43459"},"modified":"2020-07-05T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:42:36","slug":"another-run-on-tp-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43459","title":{"rendered":"Another run on TP on tap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23GregAbbott%20%23toiletpapershortage&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toiletpaperrolls-1024x575-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41656\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toiletpaperrolls-1024x575-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toiletpaperrolls-1024x575-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toiletpaperrolls-1024x575-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/toiletpaperrolls-1024x575-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the real-time realities of today is that I don&#8217;t get out much, meaning that I go to the supermarket only when I really need to buy something.<\/p>\n<p>So I am a bit slow on the uptake, I suppose, when I notice something that apparently has been trending over the course of some time.<\/p>\n<p>Such as the supply of toilet paper on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall I am sure when the pandemic first erupted we were told to stock up on certain household necessities. TP was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t in danger of running out of it in our home, but we did stock up when they appeared at our Princeton, Texas, neighborhood supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Then the supplies held up. No one felt the need to, um, fill their closets with this essential commodity.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pulled back on his reopening strategy. We&#8217;re now being ordered to wear masks in public. We are limiting gathering sizes. Abbott is imploring us to maintain &#8220;social distancing&#8221; measures. I get all that, man.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t say anything about stocking up on essential items. Not to worry about that, though. We found out during the first shutdown what we needed to do.<\/p>\n<p>TP once again is in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, you big drug firms &#8230; hurry up with that vaccine. Will ya?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23GregAbbott%20%23toiletpapershortage&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the real-time realities of today is that I don&#8217;t get out much, meaning that I go to the supermarket only when I really need to buy something. So I am a bit slow on the uptake, I suppose, when I notice something that apparently has been trending over the course of some time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another run on TP on tap<\/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":[11],"tags":[2006,9435,9436],"class_list":["post-43459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-pandemic-shutdown","tag-toilet-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459","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=43459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43460,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43459\/revisions\/43460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}