{"id":43581,"date":"2020-07-12T02:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43581"},"modified":"2020-07-12T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:32:49","slug":"kinky-friedman-ahead-of-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43581","title":{"rendered":"Kinky Friedman: ahead of his time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BuildTheWall%20%23KinkyFriedman%20%23immigration&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I enjoy looking back on musings I pushed out via my blog, seeking to find common ground with current events.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, 2010, I wrote a short piece about Kinky Friedman, the fascinating humorist who once ran for Texas governor. He was one of the more provocative and interesting political interviews I ever conducted.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about a notion that was getting some traction among Texas Republicans. He opposed building a wall along our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2010\/07\/where-have-you-been-kinky\/<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t give up with this blog post what he said then, but I do want to alert you to what feared might occur in the United States if matters kept spiraling in a direction that Kinky didn&#8217;t like. Just check out the item I have attached to this post.<\/p>\n<p>Kinky Friedman was way ahead of his time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BuildTheWall%20%23KinkyFriedman%20%23immigration&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy looking back on musings I pushed out via my blog, seeking to find common ground with current events. On July 28, 2010, I wrote a short piece about Kinky Friedman, the fascinating humorist who once ran for Texas governor. He was one of the more provocative and interesting political interviews I ever conducted. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kinky Friedman: ahead of his time<\/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":[18],"tags":[179,2686,4627,4784],"class_list":["post-43581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-agn-media","tag-kinky-friedman","tag-texas-governor","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581","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=43581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43582,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43581\/revisions\/43582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}