{"id":52452,"date":"2022-07-31T20:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52452"},"modified":"2022-07-31T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:58:02","slug":"small-but-weighty-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52452","title":{"rendered":"Small, but weighty difference"},"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\/2022\/07\/flooding.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-52453\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/flooding-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/flooding-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/flooding-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/flooding-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/flooding.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to mention a small but significant point I have sought to make since the moment I learned that Joe Biden had been elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Given the context of the mood set by his immediate predecessor, I believe it&#8217;s important.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden this past week issued a disaster declaration for the residents of Kentucky who&#8217;ve been ravaged by rampaging floodwaters. The deluge has killed at least 26 Kentuckians. The president was quick to unleash federal assistance to help the beleaguered state cope with mounting misery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, wildfires torched many thousands of acres of timberland in California. What was Donald Trump&#8217;s response in the moment? It was to scold California forestry officials for &#8220;poor management policies&#8221; relating to the forests.<\/p>\n<p>Biden offered the disaster declaration for a state he lost big-time to Trump in the 2020 election. Trump decided to single out California, which he lost in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, for alleged mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get the picture?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden understands that when disaster strikes the nation should rally behind its citizens. Donald Trump sought in the moment to use a similar opportunity to stick his finger in the eye of his political foes.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies one of the many reasons I am glad that Joe Biden is the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>I want to mention a small but significant point I have sought to make since the moment I learned that Joe Biden had been elected president of the United States. Given the context of the mood set by his immediate predecessor, I believe it&#8217;s important. President Biden this past week issued a disaster declaration for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small, but weighty difference<\/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":[4],"tags":[2505,9962,6983],"class_list":["post-52452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-kentucky-floods","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52452","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=52452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52454,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52452\/revisions\/52454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}