{"id":44204,"date":"2020-08-31T02:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44204"},"modified":"2020-08-31T02:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T02:37:12","slug":"go-away-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44204","title":{"rendered":"Go away, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I want to enthusiastically endorse the notion expressed in this social media post that showed up on my Facebook feed today.<\/p>\n

This year has sucked … out loud!<\/p>\n

The pandemic, the violence, the unrest, the racial tension, the widening political divide in the nation.<\/p>\n

We have lost 180,000-plus Americans to the pandemic. Many thousands of those folks died alone. Their loved ones couldn’t hold their hands as they slipped into the great beyond. The nurses, doctors, technicians have been pushed into the role of surrogate “loved ones” replacing those who were blocked from sitting with Mom, Dad, Wife, Husband, Brother, Sister, Daughter, Son.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has destroyed weddings, school graduations and, yes, funerals.<\/p>\n

Then there have been the African-American men who died at the hands of rogue police officers. They have been shot, suffocated and otherwise harassed. The Black Lives Matter movement has erupted.<\/p>\n

Yep, 2020 should become a curse word.<\/p>\n

What can redeem this hideous year? I’ll tell you what would do it for me: a presidential election that turns out the correct way.<\/p>\n\n

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I want to enthusiastically endorse the notion expressed in this social media post that showed up on my Facebook feed today. This year has sucked … out loud! The pandemic, the violence, the unrest, the racial tension, the widening political divide in the nation. We have lost 180,000-plus Americans to the pandemic. Many thousands of … Continue reading Go away, 2020<\/span> →<\/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":[7225,5421,9261,3798],"class_list":["post-44204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-pandemic","tag-race-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204","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=44204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44206,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions\/44206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}