{"id":9138,"date":"2015-05-01T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2015-05-01T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:00:40","slug":"baltimore-riots-hit-home-in-strange-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore riots hit home in strange way"},"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>Strange as it might sound, the Baltimore riots are troubling to my wife and me in a way we didn&#8217;t quite anticipate.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a week in that beautiful city in the summer of 1996.<\/p>\n<p>We attended a meeting of editorial writers and columnists. I was a member of what was then known as the National Conference of Editorial Writers. I had the pleasure of attending several of those national conferences over the years: Lexington, Ky., Phoenix, Ottawa, Seattle, Kansas City, Mo., Providence, R.I. &#8212; and Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the places my wife and I attended together, Baltimore is the one city she said she&#8217;d visit again and again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KE7t9MhIe4\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/240732-omalley-baltimore-rioting-a-huge-setback-for-city\/\">O&#8217;Malley: Baltimore rioting &#8216;a huge setback&#8217; for city<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;O&#8217;Malley: Baltimore rioting &#8216;a huge setback&#8217; for city&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/240732-omalley-baltimore-rioting-a-huge-setback-for-city\/embed\/#?secret=4lmzVZwPQf#?secret=KE7t9MhIe4\" data-secret=\"KE7t9MhIe4\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now these riots have hit us harder than they would have had they occurred in virtually any other great American city.<\/p>\n<p>The Inner Harbor with its row houses, the crab cakes, Fort McHenry and the general ambience of the city charmed us to no end.<\/p>\n<p>Former Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley &#8212; who also served as a Baltimore mayor &#8212; believes the city will recover from this dark chapter in its storied history. I do hope he&#8217;s right. I, too, believe the city will recover &#8212; eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Two former visitors to that lovely city &#8212; my wife and I &#8212; are pulling hard for the city to reassemble itself and return to the charming place we remember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Strange as it might sound, the Baltimore riots are troubling to my wife and me in a way we didn&#8217;t quite anticipate. We spent a week in that beautiful city in the summer of 1996. We attended a meeting of editorial writers and columnists. 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