{"id":47623,"date":"2021-04-18T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47623"},"modified":"2021-04-18T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:35:51","slug":"what-horror-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47623","title":{"rendered":"What horror awaits?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/arson-730x0-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47624\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/arson-730x0-1-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/arson-730x0-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/arson-730x0-1.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day soon we are going to return to the city of my birth, where I came of age, where I met the girl of my dreams and where we brought our sons into this world.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what I am going to see on the streets of downtown <em>Portland, Ore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Media keep telling us of the riots that break out seemingly every night there. Police brutality is the subject of people&#8217;s anger. They are lighting fires, throwing rocks at cops, venting their rage over events that occur not just on their streets, but on streets in other communities.<\/p>\n<p>I also hear the push back from those who say that downtown Portland remains as lovely a place as ever &#8230; <em>for the most part!<\/em> There are only &#8220;pockets&#8221; of damage brought by rioters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/04\/17\/the-never-ending-story-rioting-and-arson-in-portland-n383972\">The never-ending story: Rioting and arson in Portland \u2013 HotAir<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I tell people these days where I&#8217;m from, I occasionally get one of those side glances that suggests, <em>&#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re from there? From that place? Where all the rioting is occurring?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I once sought to go to Vietnam during the war because I had heard all kinds of conflicting tales of what it &#8220;was like&#8221; from returning veterans. The Army granted my wish. I found out for myself.<\/p>\n<p>I am filled with the same sense of curiosity now about my hometown. I want to see it for myself and draw my own conclusions and I will pray that I won&#8217;t be horrified at what I see.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com One day soon we are going to return to the city of my birth, where I came of age, where I met the girl of my dreams and where we brought our sons into this world. I wonder what I am going to see on the streets of downtown Portland, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What horror awaits?<\/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":[8688,13],"tags":[667,9460],"class_list":["post-47623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-national-news","tag-blm","tag-portland-riots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623","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=47623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47625,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623\/revisions\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}