{"id":48551,"date":"2021-07-11T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48551"},"modified":"2021-07-11T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T00:00:39","slug":"keep-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48551","title":{"rendered":"Keep looking forward"},"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\/07\/biden.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48552\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-300x158.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-768x404.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden.jpeg 1024w\" 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>Your humble blogger &#8212; that would be me &#8212; feels the need to affirm a vow from an earlier post.<\/p>\n<p>It is that I will not become fixated on the blathering, bellowing, bloviating and bombast coming from the mouth of the 45th president of the U.S. of A.<\/p>\n<p>He is going to make a lot of noise for the rest of this year and perhaps even part of next year. He is going to repeat The Big Lie &#8212; that the 2020 election was stolen from him &#8212; in the hopes of energizing that fanatical and gullible base of dipsh**s who continue to adhere to his irrational rants.<\/p>\n<p>I do not intend to comment on each rant as if he were still the POTUS. He isn&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t expect him to ascend to the nation&#8217;s highest office ever again. Hell, I don&#8217;t even expect him to be a serious candidate for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>My only reason for commenting on him today is because the lunatic\/imbecile\/moron\/con man\/fraud continues to hold considerable sway among a large minority of American voters. For the life of me I don&#8217;t know why or how &#8230; but he does.<\/p>\n<p>My intent is to keep looking forward.<\/p>\n<p>I am acutely aware that some critics of this blog are going to suggest that I remain &#8220;fixated&#8221; on the 45th POTUS&#8217;s pronouncements. I will answer them with a plain <em>no &#8230; I am not.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already declared that I continue to endorse the presidency of Joe Biden. He has restored a sense of dignity and decorum to the high and exalted office he occupies. We are recovering from the pandemic. Our economy is revving up nicely. President Biden is re-establishing our nation&#8217;s role as a world leader. We are re-engaging in vital international partnerships that his predecessor stripped away because he wanted to &#8220;put America first,&#8221; whatever that meant.<\/p>\n<p>This American patriot wants President Biden to succeed. I intend to keep my focus aimed toward the future.<\/p>\n<p>Be advised on one point: I will not remain silent if POTUS 45 gets himself into deep legal trouble or if his machinations gin up the fanatical base to do things that mirror, say, the Jan. 6 insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>My keen interest will lie in where the current U.S. president intends to lead us.<\/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 Your humble blogger &#8212; that would be me &#8212; feels the need to affirm a vow from an earlier post. It is that I will not become fixated on the blathering, bellowing, bloviating and bombast coming from the mouth of the 45th president of the U.S. of A. He is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep looking forward<\/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":[7225,2122,2505],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","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=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48553,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions\/48553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}