{"id":58170,"date":"2025-02-25T00:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58170"},"modified":"2025-02-25T00:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:52:18","slug":"spared-the-news-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58170","title":{"rendered":"Spared the news of the day"},"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>Times like today fill me with a mixed blessing of sadness and relief.<\/p>\n<p>Sadness arrived about 9 a.m.\u00a0 when I learned my sister died this morning of heart failure brought on by the acute COPD she suffered. I wasn&#8217;t surprised when the call came. It still saddens me beyond all I dare seek to measure.<\/p>\n<p>The blessing? I have zero interest in what&#8217;s happening in the world. I have kept my TV quiet and dark all day as I have gone about my personal business here in Princeton.<\/p>\n<p>I do not give a sh** what Elon Musk, the de facto POTJS, wants to slash from the government. Nor do I give a rat&#8217;s royal red ass what Donald Trump is bloviating about today. I don&#8217;t care about the Democratic response. I don&#8217;t give a sh** about the political consequences of all this mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>I care instead about my brother-in-law and the loss I know he is feeling. His best friend has left this good Earth. I am going to worry only about him and I will let the other crap just fester without me.<\/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>Times like today fill me with a mixed blessing of sadness and relief. Sadness arrived about 9 a.m.\u00a0 when I learned my sister died this morning of heart failure brought on by the acute COPD she suffered. I wasn&#8217;t surprised when the call came. It still saddens me beyond all I dare seek to measure. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spared the news of the day<\/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":[10],"tags":[7568,2978],"class_list":["post-58170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58170","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=58170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58171,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58170\/revisions\/58171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}