{"id":9705,"date":"2015-06-11T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2015-06-11T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:35:12","slug":"wheres-has-rush-been-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9705","title":{"rendered":"Where has Rush been hiding?"},"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 href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2203\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/images.jpg\" alt=\"Out of ideas\" width=\"108\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m a bit slow on the uptake &#8212; which I admit to readily &#8212; but I&#8217;m not hearing much lately from Daddy Dittohead, Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>I know he&#8217;s still on the air here in Amarillo. How do I know that? The gentleman who delivers our mail each day tunes his radio to the station that broadcasts Rush&#8217;s bilge, er, commentary.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that Limbaugh&#8217;s thoughts on this or that used to be quoted by mainstream media quite regularly. I haven&#8217;t seen much from or about the gasbag.<\/p>\n<p>The only news I&#8217;ve seen lately involving Limbaugh has related to stations dropping him because of advertisers bailing out.\u00a0I don&#8217;t expect that to happen in the Texas Panhandle, where Limbaugh is considered by many to be the voice of all that is wise and correct.<\/p>\n<p>As one who thinks quite differently of this guy, my hope is that he remains in the background, blathering only to the Dittoheads who don&#8217;t quite grasp the irony of being labeled as such.<\/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>Maybe I&#8217;m a bit slow on the uptake &#8212; which I admit to readily &#8212; but I&#8217;m not hearing much lately from Daddy Dittohead, Rush Limbaugh. I know he&#8217;s still on the air here in Amarillo. How do I know that? The gentleman who delivers our mail each day tunes his radio to the station &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where has Rush been hiding?<\/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":[10,14],"tags":[1398,4046,4502],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-political-news","tag-dittoheads","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","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=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}