{"id":49763,"date":"2021-11-26T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49763"},"modified":"2021-11-26T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:02:27","slug":"wanting-to-shed-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49763","title":{"rendered":"Wanting to shed politics"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49764\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/politics.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who know me only through my blog or from what I used to do for a living, which was write and edit opinion pieces for newspapers, seem to believe I am wedded to politics.<\/p>\n<p>That I cannot live a day without talking politics with &#8230; someone, anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Not true. There are days, such as today, when I want to set all that aside. So, I am going to do that very thing for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to spend the day with my wife, sons, our daughter-in-law and our granddaughter. We are going to yuk it up in the house and carry on without a worry in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then I suppose I&#8217;ll get back to the regular stuff in the morning. However, I won&#8217;t guarantee it. You see, I ain&#8217;t addicted to politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Those who know me only through my blog or from what I used to do for a living, which was write and edit opinion pieces for newspapers, seem to believe I am wedded to politics. That I cannot live a day without talking politics with &#8230; someone, anyone. Not true. There are days, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wanting to shed politics<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2122,3655],"class_list":["post-49763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763","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=49763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49765,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763\/revisions\/49765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}