{"id":57818,"date":"2024-12-01T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57818"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T00:02:51","slug":"holiday-gives-me-the-willies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57818","title":{"rendered":"Holiday gives me the willies"},"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>Why in the name of cheap-seat punditry have I gotten so queasy about skewering Donald J. Trump during this holiday season?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s not as if I have found anything at all to respect or admire about him. I still detest the notion of this fraud and con man returning to the White House. I am trying to imagine how in the world this clown is going to deliver anything resembling a heartfelt holiday greeting to the nation that doesn&#8217;t include something gratuitously self-serving or contains attack verbiage on the &#8220;fake news&#8221; or against all of those who feel as I do about him.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am being overtaken by a universal sense of good cheer. It might be filling me with a touch of guilt about saying something negative when we&#8217;re supposed to be honoring a uniquely American holiday such as Thanksgiving. We&#8217;re giving thanks these days, right? I am for sure. I give thanks I live in a country that allows me to vent openly and even angrily about my government and those who run it.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is coming up. So is Hannukah. They are joyful holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I have said so much about Trump during his nearly a decade in political life that I start repeating myself. I don&#8217;t want to do that. You don&#8217;t want to read it, either.<\/p>\n<p>The season will pass eventually. Then I can return to the normal flow of commentary on High Plains Blogger. It will remain a largely political forum. I intend to continue sprinkling it with human interest comment, It will be about me, my ongoing journey, my family and my puppy.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s the season!<\/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>Why in the name of cheap-seat punditry have I gotten so queasy about skewering Donald J. Trump during this holiday season? I mean, it&#8217;s not as if I have found anything at all to respect or admire about him. I still detest the notion of this fraud and con man returning to the White House. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday gives me the willies<\/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":[9],"tags":[1424,2122,7419],"class_list":["post-57818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818","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=57818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57819,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions\/57819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}