{"id":48725,"date":"2021-07-27T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48725"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:12:33","slug":"tough-reality-tv-viewing-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48725","title":{"rendered":"Tough &#8216;reality TV&#8217; viewing 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\/07\/dc-riot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48721\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dc-riot-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dc-riot-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dc-riot-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dc-riot-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dc-riot.jpg 1280w\" 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>This much is utterly certain: I am going to have a difficult time watching and listening to the U.S. congressional hearing into the Jan. 6 insurrection against the government.<\/p>\n<p>The testimony I am hearing today from one of the Capitol police officers is compelling, disturbing and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>The video to which the world was treated at the start of today&#8217;s opening hearing is as difficult to watch as the 9\/11 terrorist attack that occurred nearly 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>To think that some in Congress &#8212; namely its Republican caucus members &#8212; equate the insurrection to a &#8220;tourist&#8221; excursion is the most outrageous insult I can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed with wisdom and discernment, members of the House select committee. The world is watching.<\/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 This much is utterly certain: I am going to have a difficult time watching and listening to the U.S. congressional hearing into the Jan. 6 insurrection against the government. The testimony I am hearing today from one of the Capitol police officers is compelling, disturbing and heartbreaking. The video to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tough &#8216;reality TV&#8217; viewing 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":[13],"tags":[9593,2280],"class_list":["post-48725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-dc-riot","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48725","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=48725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48726,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48725\/revisions\/48726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}