{"id":6152,"date":"2014-07-12T23:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/12\/stop-laughing-mr-president\/"},"modified":"2014-07-12T23:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:57:51","slug":"stop-laughing-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6152","title":{"rendered":"Stop laughing, Mr. President"},"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 friend of mine got upset early today at a picture.<\/p>\n<p>The picture showed President Obama sharing a light moment with someone at a conference table. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also is present. He&#8217;s not laughing. At the moment the picture was snapped, he appeared to be scowling. I doubt that was the emotion he was expressing.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures such as the one to which I refer serve to inflame partisans. My pal was angry that the picture showed Obama laughing at a meeting called to discuss the border crisis involving those tens of thousands of children who are fleeing into the United States from Central America.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue what caused Obama to chuckle at that moment. Neither does my friend.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, I understand why he would be upset. He&#8217;s angry about the crisis. He thinks the president should do something to stop it. There&#8217;s nothing funny at the meeting, my friend believes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe someone said something that tickled Barack Obama&#8217;s fancy. Maybe the governor of Texas cracked a joke later, or perhaps he&#8217;d done so earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures, as they say, can tell a thousand words. This one, though, tells just a few. The president of the United States had the temerity to actually laugh.<\/p>\n<p>God have mercy if this kind of thing is going to get us upset.<\/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>A friend of mine got upset early today at a picture. The picture showed President Obama sharing a light moment with someone at a conference table. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also is present. He&#8217;s not laughing. At the moment the picture was snapped, he appeared to be scowling. I doubt that was the emotion he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop laughing, Mr. President<\/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":[1],"tags":[540,707,3951],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-border-crisis","tag-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","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=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}