{"id":57964,"date":"2025-01-04T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57964"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:53:04","slug":"its-me-vs-solicitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57964","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s me vs. solicitors"},"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>My friends tell me I possess a fairly even-tempered disposition, that they like that as a rule I don&#8217;t get too rattled.<\/p>\n<p>I am afraid that&#8217;s about to change as it regards door-to-door solicitors.<\/p>\n<p>I have posted next to my front porch a &#8220;No Solicitation&#8221; sign. It&#8217;s been out there for years. And &#8230; for years solicitors have ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>I young man rang my doorbell today, carrying some material for a home security system. I said &#8220;no&#8221; to him. He was on his way.<\/p>\n<p>He chose to ignore the sign, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>From this very moment on, I am going to tell solicitors of the sign. I want to point it out to them. I might also spew a few four-letter words at them for seemingly ignoring my plea to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>I am declaring a state of war between me and the door-to-door cabal out there. I feel better now.<\/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>My friends tell me I possess a fairly even-tempered disposition, that they like that as a rule I don&#8217;t get too rattled. I am afraid that&#8217;s about to change as it regards door-to-door solicitors. I have posted next to my front porch a &#8220;No Solicitation&#8221; sign. It&#8217;s been out there for years. And &#8230; for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s me vs. solicitors<\/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":[10417],"class_list":["post-57964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-solicitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964","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=57964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57965,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964\/revisions\/57965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}