{"id":44023,"date":"2020-08-16T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44023"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:57:08","slug":"this-is-class-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44023","title":{"rendered":"This is class personified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/biden-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44024\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/biden-tweet-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/biden-tweet-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/biden-tweet-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/biden-tweet.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an earlier, more genteel time this kind of message wouldn&#8217;t call much attention to itself. You can read it here.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s brother died this weekend and the man against whom he will run for president sent this message to the president and his family.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of message that <em>should<\/em> be sent. Indeed, it should go without mentioning, but we live in callous, coarse times. Donald Trump as often as not has led the chorus of callousness with his reaction &#8212; or <em>non-reaction<\/em> &#8212; to personal tragedies that befall other politicians, particularly those with whom he has disagreements.<\/p>\n<p>When the former vice president talks about &#8220;restoring decency&#8221; to the presidency, I will conclude that messages such as the one he sent to Donald Trump define what he means.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier, more genteel time this kind of message wouldn&#8217;t call much attention to itself. You can read it here. Donald Trump&#8217;s brother died this weekend and the man against whom he will run for president sent this message to the president and his family. It&#8217;s the kind of message that should be sent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is class personified<\/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":[1424,2505],"class_list":["post-44023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44023","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=44023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44025,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44023\/revisions\/44025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}