{"id":46297,"date":"2021-01-30T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46297"},"modified":"2021-01-30T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:05:24","slug":"vowing-to-hear-all-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46297","title":{"rendered":"Vowing to hear all sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=HighPlainsBlogger%20%23RealClearPolitics%20%23GOP%20%23politicalbias&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/narrow-minded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46298\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/narrow-minded-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/narrow-minded-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/narrow-minded-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/narrow-minded.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is time for your friendly blogger to make a solemn, sincere and honest vow.<\/p>\n<p>I hereby pledge to read more political commentary with which I disagree. The Age of Trump has given way to the Age of Biden. The change in political tone and tenor in Washington thrills me greatly.<\/p>\n<p>However, I need to make a confession. I didn&#8217;t listen to as many arguments that favored the tone that Donald Trump set during his term as president as I should have done.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Trump has holed up in his glitzy south Florida resort, I intend to examine more carefully the conservative antidote to the surprisingly progressive tone that President Biden is striking as he seeks to take control of the crises that awaited him.<\/p>\n<p>I look at a number of Internet sites each day. The one that provides the widest range of views is RealClearPolitics.com, which I scan daily. The RCP site is chock full of progressive, centrist and conservative thought. They&#8217;re all reputable and I now intend to examine those views that differ from my own bias.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\">RealClearPolitics &#8211; Live Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do I expect to &#8220;come out&#8221; as a born-again conservative? Hardly. I just believe I should practice what I occasionally preach to those who take time to read my rants on High Plains Blogger. One of my occasional rant topics deals with narrow-mindedness.<\/p>\n<p>As my dear mother used to say, <em>&#8220;That guy is so narrow-minded, he can look through a keyhole with both eyes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t intend to be &#8220;that guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=HighPlainsBlogger%20%23RealClearPolitics%20%23GOP%20%23politicalbias&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com It is time for your friendly blogger to make a solemn, sincere and honest vow. I hereby pledge to read more political commentary with which I disagree. The Age of Trump has given way to the Age of Biden. The change in political tone and tenor in Washington thrills me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vowing to hear all sides<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[1941,2122,2505,7630],"class_list":["post-46297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-joe-biden","tag-progressives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","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=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46299,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions\/46299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}