{"id":44026,"date":"2020-08-16T21:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44026"},"modified":"2020-08-16T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:53:59","slug":"no-more-name-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44026","title":{"rendered":"No more name-calling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23decency%20%40JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/16Feature-Decency-for-President-0302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44027\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/16Feature-Decency-for-President-0302-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/16Feature-Decency-for-President-0302-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/16Feature-Decency-for-President-0302.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joseph R. Biden Jr. has vowed to restore &#8220;decency&#8221; to the White House if he&#8217;s elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>That is a noble goal. I endorse the former vice president&#8217;s appeal to the better angels among us. He has summoned them to me.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, I am making a command decision regarding High Plains Blogger. I hereby declare an end to the name-calling that has peppered many of my recent blog posts criticizing Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I mean, right? I have at times used the term &#8220;<em>So and So in Chief&#8221;<\/em> when referring to Trump. That&#8217;s now over. Officially.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will continue to criticize Trump harshly when the need arises. I figure it will arise often. So there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the name-calling, I won&#8217;t go there.<\/p>\n<p>I figure if I am going to endorse one presidential candidate&#8217;s demand for decency, I ought to practice what my preferred candidate preaches. It&#8217;s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23decency%20%40JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph R. Biden Jr. has vowed to restore &#8220;decency&#8221; to the White House if he&#8217;s elected president of the United States. That is a noble goal. I endorse the former vice president&#8217;s appeal to the better angels among us. He has summoned them to me. Accordingly, I am making a command decision regarding High Plains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No more name-calling<\/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":[9484,1424,2505],"class_list":["post-44026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-decency","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44026","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=44026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44028,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44026\/revisions\/44028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}