{"id":46608,"date":"2021-02-18T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46608"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:12:58","slug":"take-off-the-mask-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46608","title":{"rendered":"Take off the mask, Ted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TedCruz%20%23Texasdeepfreeze&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46609\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cruz.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What you see with this brief blog post is a picture of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz waiting to board an airplane.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s reported the junior Republican senator has jetted off with his family to Cancun, Mexico. Why is this a big deal? Because the state he represents &#8212; that would be Texas &#8212; is enduring the effects of a historic winter storm.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Texans are affected adversely by the storm. Pipes have frozen; the power has gone out; local water supply has been compromised; politicians are sniping at each other over who&#8217;s to blame; Texans are angry, miserable, hurting.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz now reportedly is basking in the sun down yonder in Mexico while his state is suffering grievously.<\/p>\n<p>If I were Ted Cruz &#8212; <em>and I thank God I am not<\/em> &#8212; I would have issued a press release to deny that the picture is me and that I am<em> not<\/em> vacationing in Cancun &#8230; were that the case.<\/p>\n<p>His silence regarding this matter speaks volumes. Ted Cruz is shirking his duty.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TedCruz%20%23Texasdeepfreeze&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com What you see with this brief blog post is a picture of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz waiting to board an airplane. It&#8217;s reported the junior Republican senator has jetted off with his family to Cancun, Mexico. Why is this a big deal? Because the state he represents &#8212; that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take off the mask, Ted<\/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":[4537,9621],"class_list":["post-46608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-deep-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46608","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=46608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46611,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46608\/revisions\/46611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}